<P> After the Age of Utopias came what we may call the American Age, lasting as long as the Boom . Men like Ford or Mond seemed to many to have solved the social riddle and made capitalism the common good . But it was not native to us; it went with a buoyant, not to say blatant optimism, which is not our negligent or negative optimism . Much more than Victorian righteousness, or even Victorian self - righteousness, that optimism has driven people into pessimism . For the Slump brought even more disillusionment than the War . A new bitterness, and a new bewilderment, ran through all social life, and was reflected in all literature and art . It was contemptuous, not only of the old Capitalism, but of the old Socialism . Brave New World is more of a revolution against Utopia than against Victoria . </P> <P> Similarly, in 1944 economist Ludwig von Mises described Brave New World as a satire of utopian predictions of socialism: "Aldous Huxley was even courageous enough to make socialism's dreamed paradise the target of his sardonic irony ." </P> <P> The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford's assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods . While the World State lacks any supernatural - based religions, Ford himself is revered as the creator of their society but not as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., "By Ford!"). In this sense, some fragments of traditional religion are present, such as Christian crosses, which had their tops cut off to be changed to a "T". The World State calendar numbers years in the "AF" era--"Anno Ford"--with the calendar beginning in AD 1908, the year in which Ford's first Model T rolled off his assembly line . The novel's Gregorian calendar year is AD 2540, but it is referred to in the book as AF 632 . </P> <P> From birth, members of every class are indoctrinated by recorded voices repeating slogans while they sleep (called "hypnopædia" in the book) to believe their own class is superior, but that the other classes perform needed functions . Any residual unhappiness is resolved by an antidepressant and hallucinogenic drug called soma . </P>

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