BNW Chapter 3

In Chapter 3, we begin to learn about how the World State. Please explain how the following areas are different in the World State as compared to our world in 2009.

A) Sex, Monogamy & Romance
In the World State, Monogamy and Romance are considered exclusive, negative, "a narrowing channelling of impulse and energy." In our world 2009, Monogamy and Romance are positive things, and are the normalities of our society. We consider it to be a bad thing to cheat on your husband or boyfriend, whereas, it is surprising, and negative to be exclusive in the World State. In the World State, sex is a natural thing, open and everywhere, and this is considered to be a positive thing. In our world 2009, Sex may be everywhere, in the sense of advertisements, but it is not generally viewed a a positive thing. Sex is repressed, something one does in private, and exclusively. In the World State, sex is an open thing.
B) Sports
In the World State, "the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games," and they play elaborate games which "increase consumption." In our world 2009, not all games are complicated, like soccer only using a ball and your feet and sometimes a net, and the games aren't meant to "increase consumption," they are generally meant for entertainment.
C) Entertainment
In the World State, the majority of entertainment is erotic. Games are erotic, an most activities, for adults are erotic. Other entertainment, shown in Chapter 3, is "at the Club playing Musical Bridge," and going to "Savage Reservations." In our world 2009, the entertainment industry is a majority made up of televisions actors and also stage actors, and we also consider major league sports, like football, baseball, and basketball, to be entertainment.
D) Parenthood
In the World State, Parenthood is bad. No one has a "mother;" no one has "children." The Controller describes the ideal of Parenthood as "social instability." In our world 2009, Parenthood is a good thing. One values their parents and their families above all. Your loyalty lies with your family, and most people care and take care of their parents for as long as they live. In the World State, there is no loyalty, because the concept doesn't really exist.
E) Materialism
In the World State, the concept of Materialism does not exisit. As Fanny tells Lenina, "every one belongs to everyone else." For them even people are shared, much like Communism. In our world 2009, Capitalism rules, and everyone is very materialistic. One is judged by what they own, and how much they own.
F) Religion
In the World State, Religion, particularly Christianity is a very negative thing because it required women to continue being the oft-repeated word"viviparous," which is a foreign and horrible concept in the World State. In our world 2009, Religion is often considered to be very positive, and for many people, a salvation.
G) Intoxicants
In the World State, drinking, alcohol use, is regular and completely normal and expected. In our world 2009, we consider being intoxicated to be something done occasionally, for recreation, not something done often as a daily activity, whereas in the World State, it seems as if one is expected to go and get drunk, everyday. It is not only alcohol, but also, in the World State, drugs they condone. Soma, is a pill they ration out, to keep everyone happy.

Finally, to the best of your ability, provide a brief history (a paragraph) of how the World State came to be.

The World State came to be after the Economic Collapse and the Nine Years' War, which was a war of great destruction and biological warfare (Page 48, the third quote down), like with anthrax bombs, and there was a choice between World Control, which a few people had been suggesting before that war and were met with great resistance, or destruction. A choice between, what the Controller says is "stability or...Liberalism," in which he aligns World Control with stability.