"'[An Epsilon] can't help himself; he's foredoomed. Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottle - an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations'" (Huxley 222).
The government in Brave New World controls absolutely everything having to do with its citizens, even how they are born. They are grown in bottles and carefully monitored. While this could be used for good, the government abuses it. An advancement like this could be used to eradicate disease and make sure all babies are born healthy, but the government uses it to separate its citizens into different castes. They do this by damaging the ones deemed lower level beings by splitting the eggs many times to make tens of identical twins and adding alcohol to their bottles to lessen their intelligence. This does not benefit humanity because most citizens are being harmed. Only the lucky few, Alphas and Betas, are raised in the most favorable conditions. Even they, however, are manipulated by the government and are heavily conditioned to not use their intelligence to be an individual or go against the norm.
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