Topic > Incompatibility of truth and happiness in Aldous...

In Brave New World People's genetic modifications limit individuality and having a place where everyone can integrate before they are even welcomed into the world helps to alleviate the struggle for fit in. Secondly, the idea that the less a society knows about the past, the less controversies will arise, creating a new world ensures that history goes as it is written. Finally the way citizens become so distracted by the world around them after consuming soma that happiness is restored. The Brave New World motto is Community, Identity, Stability, these are the three key ideas to make citizens happy. Even if world leaders have to give up the truth, citizens are happy. True happiness is not something that can be trained, it comes from deep within us (Telfer). Happiness is not what we receive when everything goes well, but rather what we have to lead ourselves to when everything goes well