In Huxley's novel we're given two completely different worlds and cultures. There is the World State and the Savage Reservation. Essentially the World State has everything good about our world and the Savage Reservation got everything bad. In the Savage Reservation the people are subject to disease, sickness, pregnancy, age, depression, the list goes on and on. However in the World State none of these things exist. People stay young forever and never get sick. If your contraceptives fail, there's no problem because you can go and get an abortion at one of the many clinics around the city. There is no chance of people feeling sad because they can just take Soma. Anything that someone in our world might find wrong or strange is taken care of by conditioning. When I read this book, I'm constantly picking things out that I find stupid or down right insane. Then I start to think about the fact that no one questions it because they have all been conditioned to be happy with the circumstances they have been dealt.
I really don't think the World State is bad because if you're there, then you're going to be happy. I would love to live in a world where I'm constantly happy. I know exactly how crazy and impossible that sounds but that's the world they live in and they're happy. I feel bad for John because he can't appreciate anything about the World State due to the fact that he hasn't had any conditioning.
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