AHA! MOMENT
"What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled -after the Nine Years' War. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We've gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it’s been very good for happiness. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson- paying because you happened to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too." page 228
This part in the book seemed to be the most important section. It is where everything began making sense. We finally understand why this world was created. We know why they got rid of the things they did. And for the first time, I appreciated Huxley and this book (sort of). What if the world really does end up like that? What if there is a World War III and it destroys everything? Maybe we would want to start over. Maybe we would want for someone to take everything away from us if it meant there was no more fighting, no more pain, no more suffering. The idea is very intriguing. Take away cancer? Yes please. Get rid of suffering? Oh yea. But get rid of everything that makes humans, humans? I would like to say no way, but having never been in such a hopeless situation before, I would have no idea of what I would choose.
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