"Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with brick and clay and modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play" (Huxley 147).
Scientific and technological advancements did not benefit humanity because they created as a way to distract society. From birth, hypnopaedic lessons are used to permanently put certain sayings into everyone's heads as a way to condition and control the population. Part of these teachings encouraged sex and other erotic play, starting at a very young age. By hypnopaedically teaching everyone that they should be participating in such activities, it becomes ingrained in their minds that this is an everyday part of life, almost a routine. As a result, the population of the World State is totally distracted. Everyone and everything is sexualised, even the children. They are so focused on sex and using drugs to suppress all feelings, as they were taught in their sleep, that they are blind to the injustices happening around them. The government uses this to their advantage to manipulate the people and get away with things that a society like ours would see as abominations. The scientific and technological advancements in Brave New World did not benefit humanity, as they are used only to distract the people living in the World State.
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