(This is a school assignment in which I combine various quotes from Brave New New with quotes from three songs and a poem in order to make a "mashup" poem that discusses a certain theme in Brave New World)Â
Community, Identity, Stability
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? Its alright we know where you been.
My hands are sec-jointed.
I am part of a composite.Â
What did you dream? Its alright, we told you what to dream.Â
Youâve been in the pipeline filling in time.
Everyone belongs to everyone else.
Everyone works for everyone else.
One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years.Â
Stability. No civilization without stability.Â
Iâm hooked into, hooked into machine.
OH FORD, OH FORD, OH FORD.
Bokanovskyâs process is one of the major instruments of social stability!Â
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
Was and will make me ill.
Everybodyâs happy nowadays.
Beautyâs attractive, and we donât want people to be attracted by old things.
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
Ending is better than mending.
Apart from worldly troubles.
And the future is here, its bright, its now.
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away.
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader.
You better stay home and do as youâre told.
and then weâll make the buggerâs eye wet.
Donât you want to be free and men? Donât you even understand what freedom and manhood is?
I am the downfall of hierarchy.Â
Though my crime is opening of eyes.
I donât want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.Â
Iâm claiming the right to be unhappy.
Let me out; and see the world as it could be.
Slowly, majestically, with a faint humming of machinery, the Conveyors moved forward...