Brave New World #1

This World State Society reminds me if a different world such as one I read of in The Giver. It seems as though the government controls what they have as a caste system. Each person who is made has a certain place in society that they will serve. Some of the people who are made have figured out that there is more to the world around them than what is put into their brain by the government. I found a connection between knowing the truth and being happy in something we have discussed before. Plato talks about people who live in a cave and are not shown light, but then some of those people are allowed to venture into the light and experience the world. Once they are put back in the cave, they see what they were missing so they miss it. They can try to explain to the others what it was like, but the explanation is nothing like the experience. When people don’t know they can live a better life they are perfectly content with it, but when they know something better is out there they want it more and more because they know the truth. I think that soma is something that resembles a drug or alcohol. It seems to make the people happier and give them a release from the world around them.