"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency." pg 237
This chapter continues on with the description of the society, and Mond makes this point above. Basically, this society has thrown out a lot of old ideas, and kept only the ideas that involve stability. It brings me back to the quote, "Ending is better than mending, the less stitches the more riches." There are so many characteristics that we value today that are considered a menace in this society. The quote above just portrays one of those menaces...and I find this quote very ironic (This whole book is really ironic..) because we see heroes as a sign of social stability..well in movies at least. When the world has problems, if Superman or Spiderman isn't there to fix them, there is practically no hope. Maybe this doesn't connect, because these superheroes really don't exist, but still. I guess they don't even need heroes though because there's never any need for them...the whole society is under the impression that, "Everything's fine," which, it is to them for the most part. No wars will ever come, no "divided allegiance," really no chance for anything bad to happen, because, "It would upset the whole social order if men started doing things on their own." No independence, no marriage, no love, no friendships, no real emotions, this world has quite the twisted idea of happiness...but then again they really don't know any better when they have soma.
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