REFLECTIONS

Aldous Huxley may have described the radical Lefts greatest fear: social instability. They want a world that is stable now. In their vision a national health system monitored by central regulations will bring the people what Mustapha Mond told the Savage is their goal;

People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age…they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.

How many of our readers will be dangling their feer with Mr. Savage’s under the crown of the arch at some lighthouse

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west south, south-east, east . . .