"Community, Identity, Stability" is the society's motto in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a society committed to keeping itself stable. In the ideal society the people must be happy with the "status quo" and must not be able to imagine a better world or think of a worse one. People should not have the ability to understand changes, but more importantly they should not be able to make them. Beliefs and ideals should remain unchanged, and those who attempt to change them should be eliminated before they succeed. The society we live in today is far from ideal, but it is well on its way. After decades of being shown what we should strive for, and that which we should not, we have began to settle into "The Man's" idea of happiness and success. Although not close to Huxley's ideas of using fetal alcohol syndrome, bokanovskification, or hypnopedia to change our populations, we are slowly moving in that direction.
Our society has succeeded in creating the almost perfect "status quo", but unlike the Brave New World society, ours is maintained by natural forces. In Brave New World the "state" uses techniques such as depriving fetus" from oxygen, purposely giving them Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and then brain washing them while they are sleeping. Instead of these unethical techniques, our society uses the human tendency to accept, and maintain the traditions and societal levels placed on them by friend, family, and most influentially; media. If you analyze both Brave New World, and our society's attempts to place groups of people into different social classes, ours proves to be not as effective, but much more ethical.
In order to keep individuals in Brave New World's society happy, the state conditioned them through "hypnopedia". This refers to the playing of voice recording while sleeping to make the subconscious believe that it truly wants something it may not want. Also, the state would condition children to not enjoy items such as flowers, or colors through extensive cycles of shock and noise therapy.
