Brave New World #1

In Brave New World, there are 5 social groups, so to speak. In each of those, depending on your rank (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon), you are given a set color to wear and from the beginning of your life you are raised to learn and live that your group is the best to be in. There is a nursery where people are created. By this time, relationships and sex are no longer thought of as something for adults to do. In fact, the words "mom" and "dad" are taboo. Kids are allowed to "fulfill their sexual desires" when they are very young. New people are conceived in a lab. From birth, children are conditioned to do this and do that and like this and hate that. Deltas are conditioned to hate flowers and books. This causes harmony and reduces conflict -- since they use things to teach children while they sleep, the children know who they are when they grow up, and thus have no reason to want anything else. They also have soma to defeat all negative feelings. This society had every intention to be a utopia, and it got very close, but human nature is to seek happiness, not to "experience" it from birth. They aren't happy, and they can't know what happiness is until they learn to think for themselves.