"They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." p. 22
The story of Reuben and the discovery of teaching someone in the their sleep sounds amazing a possibly useful in society. It could be used to teach math or chemical equations that could lead to greater things. Also, it could be used to teach love of all people and compassion to those less fortunate. But in this factory, they sleep teach terrible things. In this society they pigeon hole people which is unfair and unjustified. For economic and financial reasons, they subliminally teach the infants what to like and what not to like. To keep society in order and perfect, they keep the Gammas,Deltas and Epsilons down and tell the Alphas and Betas to aspire. This part invokes a feeling of anger for me and most people I think because not everyone that has the talent to be great is great and there are some born with lesser talent that can dream, work, and aspire to become great.
If only you could sleep on your text books and absorb the info!
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