Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. All men are physico-chemically equal. A love of nature keeps no factory busy. A man can smile and smile and be a villain. A book about the future can interest us only if its prophecies look as though they might come true.
Alpha children wear grey.
They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki.