My Life as a Delta

So how would I describe Brave New World?

An absolutely captivating and intriguing work of literature.

I know this because a) I've heard all these wonderful things from people who have actually finished reading the work, and b) It's the first book in a long time which I have the motivation to look for after losing it.

So guess what?

I found it!
Onward, to chapters three and four!

According to Aldous Huxley, the world as we know it will be gone after the time of Henry Ford. No more countries, just seven World States. Some traditionally thought of futuristic apparatuses will come into production, such as trans-Atlantic rockets. Alcohol dissapears, and instead soma comes into production. It's a wonder drug. Like drinking a vial of alcohol and tripping all night, then waking up in the morning refreshed for another day of work with the rest of your caste system. Erotic play will be accepted and encouraged in children... Say what?!
Yes, children and adults will all be encouraged to participate in erotic play and to give into their desires. Because, according to His Fordship, one cannot be happy when they are denying themselves exactly what they want. Like hypnopaedia suggests unto littluns, "Everyone belongs to everyone else."
Child rearing centers will pop up, staffed by Betas who must wear blue at all times. The Deltas will work the desk jobs that don't require too much... thinking. The Gammas, one of the largest social castes, will work roads, railways, and most forms of public service as well as manufacturing jobs of all types. The Alphas will try as hard as possible to oversee things and to not use the free thinking skills that they've been conditioned to have. And the Epsilons... oh dear, those Epsilons will do everything else. They'll be the absolute idiots of society, yet the other castes couldn't do anything without their help. Frankly, those Epsilons just can't stop loving the fact that they're Epsilons.

Why?

Well, in a perfectly sterilized and proper world, everyone will love what they're doing. The Alphas love being the best, and the Epsilons love being looked after. So I've concluded that if I were living in the world state, I would most likely be happiest as a...

Delta.

It would seem it's a low rank to rate one's self, but it makes perfect sense. First of all, it seems like this is the bourgeoisie of the world state. These middle castes have the least supervision of all, since they have the least risk of attempting to rebel against the current policies. They have the ability to go on living their lives happily and not knowing any way but the way they are conditioned to think: exactly as the well-intentioned government intends. Of course, no one wants to be the idiot of society, such as the Epsilons, yet they get protection from all other castes. Yet having the ability to think freely yet being forced to conform to the highly regarded government as an Alpha would be a fairly miserable way to live a life. A Beta works in the government centers all the time, because what on earth would the Fordship do if these second-rate castes began to think freely? They surely wouldn't handle it as well as an intelligent Alpha. So they're kept under watch daily at their jobs conditioning more fetuses to think just like they do. Lenina is one of these Betas, and she's managed to stick with her conditioning over most of her sheltered life. Though under scrutiny for staying in one relationship for too long (because, of course, it's improper to become attached to one person only. everyone belongs to everyone, as they say in the world state) her conformity in every other aspect of her life causes her to stay relatively quiet and without suspicion.

Bernard Marx, however, is a completely different case.

Conclusion: The US economy, the Iraq war, and the high prices of Starbucks coffee could be resolved if our world leaders/CEO's just took a gram of soma.