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This is a mind map about Brave New World. "Brave New World" is one of the most classic dystopian literatures of the 20th century. This work is closely related to George Orwell's "1984" and Zamyatin's "Brave New World". "Us" is collectively known as the three "dystopian" books and has had a profound influence on the ideological circles at home and abroad.
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brave new world
Main institutions
Central London Fertility and Breeding Center
Badge: Collective, Identity, Stability
Goal: To get people to love a social mission they can’t escape.
Awareness Training Base: The New Pavlovian Nurture Room of the Nursery
main characters
Mustafa Mond
He controls the order of the world, understands the difference between the previous world and the current world, and how to stabilize the existing world order. He is one of the few people on the mainland who can understand the difference between the two worlds.
Max
He has self-awareness, but his consciousness stems from his personal lack (short stature). Through John, he regained his self-confidence and overcame his inferiority complex, and he recognized the value of the new world. His deviation from the values of the New World; does not pose a serious threat to the New World
Lenina
Reflecting the power of women - the loss of love and motherhood
Helmholtz
A New World ideological mentor and an ideological awakener, he finally chose to go into exile for his personal philosophy.
John
Growing up in a barbaric area, he is incompatible with the values of the new world.
hierarchy
From high to low: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
Key arguments
overpopulation
Controlling undesirable behavior through punishment is less effective than reinforcing desirable behavior through rewards (the difference between reinforcing behavior and thoughts)
Engineers, scientists, teachers, and administrators are paid well if they do a good job and are not subject to high taxes, so they always have an incentive to do a better job and get paid more. In some areas, they enjoy intellectual freedom and can act as they wish. They are punished only when they cross established limits and enter the ideological and political realm. It was precisely because they were granted professional freedom that Russian teachers, scientists and technicians achieved such extraordinary achievements
quantity, quality, ethics
Our medicines and social services keep them alive and allow them to reproduce. Helping the less fortunate is obviously a good thing. But the results of undesirable mutations are being passed on to our offspring in batches, contaminating the gene pool that our species relies on for reproduction bit by bit, which is obviously a very bad thing. We are caught in an ethical dilemma and must use all our wisdom and goodwill to find a golden mean.
overly organized
Organization is indispensable because freedom can exist and have meaning only in a self-governing community of freely cooperating individuals. But while indispensable, organizations can also be lethal. Excessive organization turns men and women into automatons, stifling the spirit of innovation and destroying the possibility of free existence
In "1984", the desire for power is satisfied by inflicting pain, while in "Brave New World", it is satisfied by giving pleasure, but it is also an insult to people.
Propaganda in a Democratic Society
Liberalism can only thrive in a prosperous environment, and as the economy enters depression, the government must intervene more frequently and violently, leading to the decline of democracy.
In the totalitarian East, there is political censorship and mass media is controlled by the state. In the democratic West, where there is economic censorship and mass media is controlled by members of the power elite
If the vast majority of members of a society do not live in the present and the predictable future most of the time, but live in a fantasy and confusing world constructed by ethereal sports, soap operas, and myths, it will be difficult to resist the desire to manipulate and control. Their people are being eroded step by step
Political propaganda under authoritarian regimes
Hitler's dictatorship was essentially different from previous dictatorships in history. It was the first authoritarian regime to impose all aspects of modern technological means on its own country. Eighty million people have been deprived of the right to think for themselves through technological means such as radio and loudspeakers, thereby subjugating them to the will of one man
As Hitler himself said: "To be a leader, you must have the ability to impress the masses." His goal was first to impress the masses, then to break them away from traditional loyalties and morals, forcibly incorporating them (while most people were in a hypnotic state with the approval of) the new totalitarian ruling order designed by him
The march diverts people's thoughts, the march kills the thought, the march marks the end of the individual. Parades are an indispensable magic wand designed to accustom people to a mechanical, semi-ritualized activity until it becomes second nature
The masses are despicable, incapable of abstract thought, and simply uninterested in matters outside their own small circle. Their behavior is determined not by knowledge and reason, but by emotion and unconscious drives. These drives and emotions are "the root of their positive and negative attitudes." To be a successful propagandist one must learn to manipulate and manipulate these instincts and emotions. “The driving force behind the largest revolutions has never been the scientific teachings that convinced the masses, but always a certain hysteria that inspired their loyalty and spurred them to action. Anyone who hopes to gain the support of the masses must take control of opening their The key to the heart..." in post-Freudian terms is to unlock their unconscious
The art of selling
One advertiser wrote: "Cosmetic manufacturers are not selling lanolin, they are selling hope." For this hope, this deceptive promise that they will be reborn, women are willing to pay ten or even twenty times the original price of lotion. Buy it because publicists have skillfully linked it, through misleading symbolism, to almost every woman's deep desire - the desire to become more attractive to the opposite sex. The underlying principle of this type of propaganda is very simple. Find some common desire, some widespread unconscious fear or anxiety, figure out some way to connect that desire or fear to a product you want to sell, and then build a bridge through symbols in language or images, Allow customers to move from reality to compensatory dreams, and then from dreams to hallucinations, thinking that their dreams will come true when they buy your product.
The nature of debate is that politicians and clergy always tend to oversimplify complex issues. From the pulpit or podium, even the most conscientious speaker will find it difficult to tell the whole truth.
Those millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of children will grow up to adopt the tyrant's ideology, like well-trained soldiers, against the seeds that the tyrant's propagandists planted in their effective psyches. Trigger command and take corresponding action
brainwashing
Going back to Pavlov, he found that throughout the process of reaching the breaking point, dogs became more obedient than usual. When that dog reaches or approaches the limits of its brain's capacity, new behavioral patterns can easily be established, and these new behavioral patterns implanted in the animal never seem to disappear. What is learned under stress will become an integral part of its fabric
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends on the manner in which it is delivered, not on the tenets taught. These beliefs may be right, they may be wrong, they may be reasonable, they may be harmful—but it doesn’t matter. Indoctrination can be effective if it is implemented in the right way at the right time during mental fatigue. Under ideal circumstances, almost anyone can be persuaded to believe in any idea.
Nurtured from infancy (and perhaps biologically designed), the masses of the middle and lower classes will never need to change their beliefs or even be retrained in their true faith.
unconscious persuasion
At the conscious level, one of the most effective methods of irrational persuasion is associative persuasion. A propagandist deliberately links his or her chosen product, candidate, or event to an idea, character, or thing that the vast majority of people in a culture consider to be good.
sleep education
Educators try to provide intellectual training to sleeping students, but intellectual activity and sleep are incompatible.
It must be irrational speech..." The kind of language that does not need to be analyzed and understood but can be fully accepted by the sleeping brain. This is the real sleep education method, "the greatest force of moral education and socialization in history.
The most profitable thing is to help countless people who are not satisfied with their current situation to become another person through suggestion or self-suggestion.
Words of warning
At the end of the day, everyone is for one and I am for everyone
If you're Epsilon," Henry said, "you've been nurtured in a way that makes you equally grateful that you're not a beta or an alpha.
No crime is more heinous than heresy. Murder only kills one or two people. Heretical behavior not only threatens individual lives, it also has an impact on society itself. Yes, to society itself
Our belief is happiness and stability. A society composed of Alphas must be a turbulent and miserable society
It’s not just art that’s incompatible with happiness. And science. Science is dangerous and we must put a halter and reins on it very carefully
The best population figures are modeled after an iceberg - eight out of nine people below the horizon and one in nine above the horizon
The Master smiled and said, "That's the price I paid. I chose to serve happiness. Serve the happiness of others - not mine."
Universal happiness can make the wheel of fortune turn steadily, but truth and beauty cannot. Of course, when the masses hold political power, the important thing is happiness, not truth and beauty
Only constant repetition can ultimately successfully transplant an idea into the memory of the masses
Features
How to cultivate and solidify early childhood behaviors
Books are combined with noise, flowers are combined with electric shock. They release noise when they read a book, and give electric shocks when they touch flowers. Repeated experiments for many times form a conditioned reflex and solidify it into a habit. These things form a close connection in their minds. When they grow up, they will instinctively hate flowers. and books
Why we need to eliminate the love of nature at the bottom
Primroses and Landscapes have one serious flaw: they're free. Love of nature keeps factories under-operated
Why we should banish motherhood, monogamy, and love
Because of mothers and lovers, because they did not accept the injunction to cultivate obedience, because of those temptations and lonely regrets, because of the pains of illness and endless isolation, because of all the impermanence and poverty - they had to have strong emotions. And with strong emotions (not to mention the despair of loneliness and abandonment), how can they be stable?
Emotions are obstacles to stability, how to remove them
Emotion lurks in the gap between desire and satisfaction, shortening this gap and breaking down all old unnecessary barriers
How truth is shaped
Repeated a hundred times three nights a week for four years, Bernard Marx was an expert in hypnotic education. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions create a truth
How to build stability in a brave new world
The old man can work, the old man can have sex, the old man is always enjoying himself, and has no time, no time to sit down and think - even if, by accidental misfortune, there is a gap between the soothing pastimes, he can take soda Mount
The butt determines the head
Success made Bernard feel light and at peace with a world he had previously felt so dissatisfied with (like the effect of fine wine). When it acknowledges that he is a big shot, everything is in good order. But while his success prompted his reconciliation with the world, he refused to give up his right to criticize the order. Because criticism makes him feel good about himself and makes him more self-aggrandizing. And he really believes that there is something to criticize
Why should we destroy the thoughts and speeches of the former world?
It is this kind of thinking that may easily invalidate the training received by unstable people in the upper class - causing them to lose their belief in happiness as the highest good and instead believe that life's purpose is higher than reality, that life is The goal is not to make happiness last forever, but to strengthen and sublimate consciousness, as well as the advancement of knowledge.
Why society cannot be made up of one class
A man who had been raised and educated by Alpha would go crazy if he had to do the work that the semi-demented Epsilon did - go crazy, or start breaking things. Alphas can be fully socialized—but only if you let them do the alpha job. Only Epsilon can make Epsilon-style sacrifices. The reason is simple. For him, it is not a sacrifice. They will not go against you. His upbringing dictates the trajectory he must follow. He can only do this, his fate is already sealed
Everyone flouted the law, no one obeyed orders, all those assigned to low-level jobs were always vying for high-level jobs, and all those who got high-level jobs were fighting against each other to keep their positions at all costs. Six years later they launched a brutal civil war. Nineteen thousand out of twenty-two thousand people were killed, and the survivors unanimously petitioned the Masters of the World to restore control of the island of Cyprus, which they did. This is the end of a society composed of Alphas that has ever existed in the world.
Too much technology and too much leisure are turmoil
This experiment was conducted a century and a half ago. The four-hour working day is implemented throughout the island of Ireland. What was the outcome? Society is in turmoil, and soma consumption increases dramatically, that's it. The extra three and a half hours of leisure time is not a source of happiness at all. People feel that they must go on vacation.
It is extremely cruel to allow them too much leisure. The same is true for agriculture. We could synthetically manufacture every bite of food if we wanted to. But we don't do that. We want to keep one third of the population on the land. This is for their sake - because it takes longer to grow food from the land than to make it in a factory. Moreover, we also need to consider stability. We don't want change. Every change threatens stability. That's another reason we're so cautious about the application of new inventions. Every discovery of pure science is potentially reactionary, and even science must sometimes be regarded as a possible enemy. Yes, even science
Why is there no God and religion in the new world?
You can only be free from God when you have youth and prosperity. Independence cannot transport us safely to the other world. ’ Now we have eternal youth and prosperity. Obviously, and logically, we can get rid of God. Religious feelings can compensate for our loss, but we do not feel lost. Loss and religious emotions are superfluous. Why should we pursue alternatives to eternal youth when the desire for eternal youth is already satisfied? Why abstain from sex when we can have fun all the time? Why do we need peace when our minds and bodies are always happily active? Why seek solace when we have soma? Why pray for eternity when we have social order
Why is there no heroism in the new world?
Civilization has absolutely no need for nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a well-organized society like ours, no one has the opportunity to do anything noble or heroic. Such opportunities only arise during times of extreme turmoil. With war and loyalty; with temptations to resist, love worth fighting for or defending, nobility or valor obviously makes sense.