"'And remember,' he added reassuringly to Lenina, "they're perfectly tame; savages won't do you any harm. They've got enough experience of gas bombs to know that they mustn't play any tricks'" (Huxley 106).
As science and technology advanced, the traditional way of life vanished. People no longer got married, there were no families, and babies were now created in test tubes instead of naturally. All of society viewed the ideas of the past and words like family and parents as smut, and found it nearly impossible to imagine a life where these things were normal. There was a place in New Mexico, however, known as the Savage Reservation. The "savages" were simply people who never gave up the old ways. They get married, have families, and give birth the natural way. They do not rely on soma and other technology to distract them and keep them happy. They experience all the ups and downs of life, as humans are supposed to do. The citizens of the brave new world are so easily manipulated by the government through science and technology that they were lead to believe that those who lived life the natural way were terrifying savages that needed to be controlled and kept in a reservation separate from the general population. Scientific and technological advancements did not benefit humanity because it pushed society away from the natural ways by the government so that they could be easily controlled.
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