The so called "Civilized" society has taught us that our lives revolve around three things: soma, sex, and consumption. There is no in between. Why is it so crucial that we live for only those three things? Why is it that there is no patience and time for anything other than taking a soma holiday? Why is it that sex makes our world go round? Why is it that when we are not doing any of those three things, we feel the need to escape? What is there to escape from? Why is it so bad to actually feel and know what it is like to have time on our hands? Does anyone know what it is like to feel anymore? To feel sad or lonely? To feel happy or utterly depressed? No, nobody does, because these feelings are so overwhelming that no one has either the time of patience to try and explore the emotions we all have hidden inside.
"Civilized" society is based on so many superficial entities. Where has the love gone? Where has knowledge gone? Where has life without the mandatory need for sex and drugs gone? What have they done? They have taught us that sex without love is the only way to go (oh, my poor darling Lenina.) They have taught us that it is okay to run from ourselves. They have taught us that consumption is the only way to go, that is stabilizes us. But what about the deeper things? Can't we enjoy the feeling of actually falling in love, and finishing a good, old fashioned book, and living life without the need to take a gramme of soma every time we find that we have a chance to think?
Living without soma and sex without love has taught me so many things. Oh, how I wish I could try to make them understand. Lenina, my love, my darling, she is too blind to see what real love is. She has been conditioned to feel nothing other than the pleasure of two bodies connecting. None of these people have. They no longer understand the difference between "love" and "lust." Their society no longer acknowledges that the bloody word even exists. Their only loves are soma and sex. There is no real, genuine love for anything else. They have been so restricted from it that even the thought of the word makes them sick.
Society has been so dumbed down that they can't even enjoy the pleasures of reading a good book. Othello, Romeo and Juliet, the Bible, the thought of these books confuses them to a point of no return.The lessons, the morals, the forces behind these books, you can't learn that in your sleep. The love between Romeo and Juliet, the emotions faced in Othello, the feeling behind those books no longer exists in society.
It's such a shame that this is what the "civilized" society has turned into. No real love, no real values, no real truth. It's a wonder society is still standing. Will these people ever experience real love? Will I ever get through to my beloved Lenina? Will I ever see the day when people are able to sit down and read a good book and not have to worry about facing their own emotions? Will I ever see the day when people actually make love, not just have sex? Will I ever see the day when the superficial aspects of life no longer matter? Will I ever see the day when the power that has been holding these people from becoming all they can be give way to how beautiful life can be? I hope the day comes soon, but until then, I declare myself from the norms of "civilized" society.
