![]() ![]() The Controller stresses social stability is what makes a civilization. This is because the populace was not conditioned to obey, so they were condemned to loneliness, disease, poverty, and hopelessness. All of these terms are foreign to the students because in the World State "everyone belongs to everyone else." He tells the students that with mothers, monogamy, and romance the pre-modern world population was an insane and miserable place. The Controller speaks to the students of husbands, wives, monogamy, and romance. This is where the tradition of parents and no parents meet. The Controller explains that in the islands off New Guinea, Trobriands felt that conception was from ancestral ghosts. Mustapha Mond, the Controller, tells the students Our Freud felt that family life was full of pitfalls such as miserable fathers, mothers who conjure feelings ranging from sadism to chastity, and siblings and other relatives who promote feelings of madness and suicide. ![]() The Controller tells the students the Our Ford liked to be called Our Freud when he explained psychology. The Controller also emphasizes the emotional toll of living as a family took on each family member such as the children feeling suffocated by the attentions of their mother. The students are repulsed at the idea of living in such conditions. He talks to the students about the small, stifling, and overpopulated homes in which people lived. That being said, he has decided to speak to them about human history. First he quotes Our Ford by saying "History is bunk." The Controller feels that all events which occurred before the World State was established should be wiped away. The Controller takes over the discussion on history. ![]() Instead of the Director answering them, the Resident Controller for Western Europe, Mustapha Mond, answers, he tells them that it was terrible. The students enquire what the result of this suppressed behavior was. In the time before Ford, sex was not considered normal until a person was at least 20 years old. He informs them that erotic play was, in the time before Ford, considered abnormal, the students laugh at this notion. The Director starts to tell the students about their history. Chapter three begins with the students watching children engaging in games and erotic play. ![]()
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