journal #1

Andrew Nodland
Journal #1 Topic A


"Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!
Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
Skies are blue inside of you,
The weather's always fine;
For
There ain't no Bottle in all the world
Like that dear little Bottle of mine."      p. 76

This society is structured by divided groups based on how you were developed at the hatching center. The fully developed ones are very smart and attractive. I think they are perfect or almost perfect. But there are one's that aren't as fully developed and aren't as smart. In the hatchery, they lower the amounts of oxygen delivered to the embryos to make the peoople turn out not as develpoed as others. When you are maturing, they have voices repeating over and over things in order for you to gain knowledge. Also, they shock you when around certain things, such as books, so you don't like them. They don't want the lower developed people to read because they want them to be as stable as they can and do one thing and one thing only. Books will make them think of various things which will ruin what this society has going.
This passage above is chosen because in this society, they tell the people to be joyous and here is the people singing this song. I think this is like propaganda, as in Ford is making them drink their daily dose and presdcribed bottles in order for everybody to not realize what this society is doing and just most importantly, make this society as stable as it can be. That's the World State's motto: Community, Identity, Stablity.
As I have been reading this book, I have noticed there is this kind of awkwardness in this society. They do certain things that aren't acceptable in our world today, like letting children interact with eachother in exotic and inappropiate ways. But they reference to our world saying we do bad things like having families. Also, that this person said he has this little unique thought in his head that he thought was weird. This makes this society have some flaws and that not all the people are perfectly stable.