Discuss the relationship between science, religion, and political power in the World State.
The world state are controllers of the world, similar to the congress today. The world senate consists of 10 free thinkers, men and woman, who control important actions in the society. The world senate are the only politics in the modern world. No system of checks and balances are in order to keep them from going corrupt or mad with power. The world senate halted all progress of science and focuses only on the pharmaceutical happiness of the common wealth, by whatever means necessary. Christianity is completely abolished, the members of society don't even know what "God" is. Christianity has been replaced by Ford-ism, the worship of Henry Ford, the man who perfected the assembly line. "God in the safe and Ford in the shelves." (Huxley 232). The World Congress are well educated in the cultures of the past, the are influenced by the teachings of yesterday, for example, Mustapha Mond believes that there is a God, but since people change and god doesn't it has little prevalence to spit scripture at the uneducated citizens of the modern age. Brave New World is about the for-longing of true emotions for basic happiness, the world congress are the men and women who succeed in this goal.
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