Welcome everyone to this very important occasion for the World State. And a bitter-sweet occasion it is to us. It’s very sad to be saying goodbye Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson, two very important characters that once a time contributed to our society by their scientific researches and hypnopaedic quotes respectively. I remember that in those days of the Nine Year War, our society was constantly in chaos and our ancestors used to fight against them because of those painful lessons of history. You all remember I suppose that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s: “History is bunk. It is terrible to look backward to the past, because history revolves around human frailties and emotions such as love, anger, vengeance, and temptation, these feelings have no place in a society built around maximizing happiness. Human frailties and emotions brings to us instability, it forces to ignore identity and in consequence to lack the behavioral patterns inside community. Because of those few reasons I have mentioned, we must maintain the stability in our society, by don’t let anyone go against our established parameters of normal behavior.
If someone of us tries to go against the society, then that individual is no longer our friend, he or she is our enemy. As the ruler of World State, I took the initiative to transfer Bernard and Helmholtz to an island because they are harmful for our society, in order to protect us and maintain peace and happiness. My duty not only as controller, but as a citizen who defends his country’s stability, is to tell you how things happened, in fact the truth. Everybody should know how the arrival of Mr. Savage affected us, but above all had a greater impact on our ex-friends Bernard and Helmholtz.
Bernard always showed a queer behavior that many of us understood that was produced because of a mistake that someone did while he was in bottle, but since John’s arrival, he was developing weird ideas about freedom and manhood. By the other side Helmholtz a well known lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering, made a heretical poem to his students on the virtues of solitude and not satisfied with that, he personally informed me that he liked the idea of being transferred to an island full of disturbing and disgusting nature.
Poor Helmholtz, he even claimed the right to be unhappy! Can you imagine all the nonsense I heard from these Alpha-Plus individuals? Thank Ford you weren’t there to hear all that bunch of unorthodox ideas and opinions they mentioned. It is clear that these citizens did not enjoy stability and much less of happiness. I know that some of you were in contact with these individuals, so if someone is concerned in what they used to call moral beliefs, freedom, slavery or manhood, better tell me in order to help you to avoid future problems with yourselves and mainly with the society.
Remember Ford helps those who help themselves; those are eternal and beautiful words of our friend at that time, Mr. Helmholtz Watson. Unhappiness is the result of human feelings and thoughts, pain, constant apprehension and books full of literature or history. Books are the worst source of unhappiness; you know what they cause on you? They make you forget identity! You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.
Books were used by poor pre moderns, mad and wicked and miserable men. Their world didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, and most important: happy. Oh Ford! This is difficult for me to tell you but, these people were forced to live with prohibitions, diseases, lonely remorse, uncertainties, poverty and regrets. And feeling strongly, in hopelessly individual isolation, in solitude, how they could be stable? This is the reason why our ancestors fought in the Nine Year War; they fought for a Brave New World!
