Ford has been replaced by the Dow Jones Industrial Average as our contemporary idol, but drugs and uncontrolled sex are still with us. Predestinators'' decide the future function of each embryo within society, and each is assigned a job. In his follow-up work, Brave New World Revisited, Huxley said the only way to create a permanently stable society is for a totalitarian regime to exercise absolute power. Community is established by dividing the population into segments in which the Alphas function as intellectual superiors, and another caste, called ''Epsilons,'' performs menial labor. Identity is established in the Conditioning Centre where embryos are separated into five groups.
Stability is maintained through the limitation placed on the intelligence of each group.
The parental relationship with children is dirty and improper. Feelings are obsolete. Children are conditioned to think and act only as members of their class rather than as individuals. All of these human distinctions are replaced in Huxley's novel by science with the help of an all-pervasive state. It did in Germany, Russia, China and other places where science joined politicians in a quest for the master race and the perfect state and got the worst of all possible worlds.