The World Controllers: An Analysis

In order to create a stable society, the leaders believe that they would need to take away all human emotion. The World Controllers believed that emotion caused social unrest, disease, and war which all lead to death and suffering. The controller believes if you give people what they want immediately, therefore shortening desire, then it will eliminate emotion. By eliminating emotions, many of the problems in the past will go away and the society can live in harmony. The people get no say in how they want to live their lives. There are put in different social groups when they are born and are taught to do one thing. An individual is created to be in the lower class without given an option. It is unfair that people are automatically placed in
He believes that the process they are doing to the people causes equality and democracy did not. In a democracy, every individual is giving freewill and gets to choose how he/she wants to live her life. Every individual is equally represented and no one is more important than another. The controller claims he is creating equality but he is giving people no choice with their own lives. Ironically, he is creating human beings to be more important, more educated, and more appealing than others, which is the complete opposite of equality. In the current system, the lower class people are trained to work and not think. For example, the people in charge will show children flowers and books and electrically shock them so the children will have a natural hatred of these objects. The leaders would “condition” the children into what they want them to do when they are older, which is completely unfair and unequal. The lower class people, such as the Epsilons, would benefit more in a democracy because they would actually have a chance. In a democracy people would not be organized into the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. If creating a socially stable society takes away the joys and happiness of life, then what is the point of the stable