"The Voice of Reason, the Voice of Good Feeling. The sound-track roll was unwinding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two (Medium Strength). Straight from the depths of a non-existent heart..." (Huxley, 214-215).Controlling the masses has been the object of civilized societies since the start of organized living; the hand of rational society that reigns us back in when we succumb to our most base desires. The Romans accomplished this with bread and circuses and those of this society accomplish it with soma. Citizens are dependent on the release from even the modified reality they live in. The quote I chose was extracted from the scene where the police dissipate the riot against the Savage and use the recording to calm the subconscious unrest of the angered citizens. It reveals how mechanical and planned the society is. Huxley chooses to add that the recording comes "straight from the depths of a non-existent heart," saying that the supposedly well-intentioned, sweet words about happiness and harmony really have a sinister purpose of absolute control.
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