"Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness:..." Pg. 43
I chose this phrase because it caused me to comtemplate what happens to normal feelings in such an airtight world. Despite the fact this passage goes on to say the emotions are "channeled into a calm well-being," the fact of the matter remains. Would such an engineered and calculated world be able to account for normal human impulse? As discussed before, the infants are conditioned to shy away fro the predetermined taboos of the World State. They seem to have that down to a science. However, our minds do not think like machines, no matter how much we want them to. We want, we desire, we dream of something different, constantly. Perhaps moderation is the key. Just like everything else in this world, emotion is cut down to an acceptable level.
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