Absent comprehensive conditioning, John Savage relies on his encyclopedic memorization of all of Shakespeare to supply analogies with which to evaluate new and unknown situations which he encounters. (This leads to reflection on the role of grammar-level, rote memorization for support of higher studies—in the medieval monastery, the monks would repeatedly read-aloud, sections of texts, “ruminating” upon them like ruminant animals “chewing the cud”, until they were able to draw upon the internalized knowledge during discourse.)
But upon being confronted with the analogy of the Mega-Soma-Coma as “eternity”, that which ultimately has the core meaning that “life is a disease process for which death is the `cure`”, Savage finds no resolution in the Shakespearian phrase “eternity was in our lips and eyes” (Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, Scene 3), but revolts against the World State’s basis in thanatophilia, death-love.
John Savage is exceptional in not being a test-tube baby. His responses are not due to programmed, totalitarian behavioral conditioning as are those of all the other characters in the video (except, provisionally, the young Alpha Plus (A+) trainee, Bernard Marx being groomed for a Directorship by His Fordship, Mustapha Mond, whose supreme status is signified by a “T” character, after the Ford Model-T, in addition to his A+ insignia, expressing criticism of Marx’ susceptibility to ideas heretical to the established order).
For context about founding technocracy author, Aldous Huxley’s vision of anti-biblical, world-unified organizational control, see the archived text of Jim Keith’s Mind Control, World Control, The Encyclopedia of Mind Control.
See Bruce Deitrick Price’s archived article “The Crusade Against Knowledge – The Campaign Against Memory” regarding the deliberate deprecation of sound education.
See the blog posting “Little Lost Lambeth” for a contrast between Aldous Huxley’s technocratic dystopia and Christendom.
See The Catechism Explained (1899) by Fr. Francis Spirago, “The knowledge of God is all important, for without it there cannot be any happiness on earth, or a well-ordered life“, for the reference to the corpus of knowledge essential for exercising informed choice as a Catholic Christian.
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