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In the novel, A Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley creates a world where the people are ignorant of the truth, and are, therefore, in a state of bliss that they mistake as happiness. The people in the World State are in a world where they don't know what true happiness is. The way they have lived their lives has blocked out real happiness. Through conditioning and drugging the government has kept the people of the World State ignorant to the truth. The people in the World State believe they are happy when really they are in an ignorant bliss.

When people are, "born" in the World State they are put through a process called conditioning. This conditioning changes how they would normally feel about something and makes them do what the world state wants them to do. For example, if the World State wanted the person to like working outside, they would condition that person to like working outside. So now even if the person liked to work inside he would think he likes to work......

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