The Other Civilization

"Up there, in Malpais, the drums were being beaten. Their feet fell in with the rhythm of that mysterious heart; they quickened their pace. Their path led them to the foot of the precipice. The sides of the great mesa ship towered over them, three hundred feet to the gunwale." pg 108

In this chapter, we once again see the how hypnopaedia acts as a powerful mind controller upon those who have been conditioned. When Lenina and Linda [new character] came upon the uncivilized lifestyle of the Indians, they recited lines that had been impounded in their heads: 'Civilization is Sterilization', and 'Everybody belongs to everyone else.' The way that Lenina and Linda reacted to the lifestyle of the Indians shows how helpless they really are--the government tells them what's right, what the rules should be, how to live, and who to be with.  I know in one of my previous blogs I wrote, "Science doesn't have the ability to interfere with human feelings," but now I don't even know if that is true anymore. The only feelings that these women seem to have are because of science and conditioning... Science has obviously controlled them to a pretty large extent.

Well anyway I found two similies that created imagery of this new place:
"The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust."
"His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian."
The first similie illustrates the scenery of the area. It appears as though it's untouched by man, and instead a natural site--surprising to those who live in a sterile and [practically] chrome world.
The second similie shows how dirty and unkempt the Indians were. Also, the fact that his face was wrinkled was something Lenina had a hard time accepting. She said "Lots of people are old; they're not like that." Their science has defied the odds of aging it appears, because wrinkles are not something that she is familiar with.