However, Lenina also informs her that she has already met Bernard Marx, a short and funny-looking guy for an Alpha caste and different than his peers. Simultaneously, Lenina talks to Fanny about her intimacy with Henry Foster at which Fanny rebukes her for becoming too intimate and not being promiscuous. When the students come into the open, they see games and sexual acts where a World Controller, Mustapha Mond, delivers a lecture to the touring students about history, the State’s narrative, and the nation’s ideology. Such as the use of ‘Soma’ drugs to escape unpleasant experiences. From there, they visit the Nursery and see the programming of the infants through different techniques. One of the employees also informs the boys about the vaccination procedure. The last race, the Epsilons, are occupying the final stage at the bottom of the hierarchy for doing labor.

The Alpha takes up the higher positions in the World States and other positions go to other castes in hierarchical order. They learn about processes Bokanovsky and Podsnap used for creating identical human beings through the embryonic processes in which different human beings are produced in factories into separate castes of Alpha and Beta at the top. These irrelevant distractions blind people to the reality of the social and political situation and facilitates the destruction of their freedom.The story starts from the Hatching and Conditioning Centre, located in London where its director and assistants are lecturing the touring boys. In the past, information provided by a free press might either be true or false today, the mass media-both in the Soviet world and in the democratic West-seeks to distract people with the “unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant” (35). It can either inform and enlighten, or become a weapon of dictators. It finds a natural home in politics, which lacks the solid factual basis of the sciences.Ĭonsidered in itself, mass communication is a neutral force that can be used for good or ill. Unfortunately, receptiveness to blind emotional appeals is deeply rooted in human nature. It is the latter that is dangerous, because it distorts the truth and relies on simplistic catchwords to manipulate people. The first appeals to reasonable self-interest while the latter appeals only to emotion. There are two kinds of propaganda, rational and non-rational.

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