Henry Ford was the god of this society, his Model T Ford the holy symbol. The production still adhered to Huxley’s caste system: There were the Alphas and the Betas the Gammas (“not too stupid and not too bright”) came in pairs and looked alike the Deltas also looked the same – and the lowest on the genetic scale were the mindless drugged Epsilons.
The same sentiments were no doubt stirred by this MCA low-budget made-for-television movie which was loosely based on the novel, although Huxley purists would have probably loathed the 1980 interpretation where modern terminology and ideas were fused to the Huxley original. His concept of the way life might be horrified and amused his readers. It was a world in which pregnancy was outlawed, and citizens were required to engage in loveless sex, with narcotics used to ensure happiness in the population. Aldous Huxley gave the world a chilling picture of genetic controls and behaviour conditioning in his 1932 novel Brave New World.
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