Perfect World

      While reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, I came across a quote that caught my eye. "The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave."
      I found this interesting because of the world we live in now. It's the total opposite. We live in a world where not everyone is happy; where people don't get what they want and want what they can't have; we live in a world that is unsafe, where people dread the day they start to grow old and die.
In a world where everyone seeks happiness, the people in the World State are always "happy" because the artificial stability in the World State disguises the tragedies of the society starting from when they are "born." They are divided into different hierarchical groups who already have a predestine life planned out for them, almost like in the book The Giver, however, in The Giver the society is not divided into groups. I think living in a society where everything is perfectly planned is almost like not living. I wouldn't want someone else determining what job I have, let alone how I live the rest of my life. I would much rather live through the struggles that life gives me then just getting what I want.
      What do you guys think. Is living in a society where everything is already preplanned for you an alternate way of getting rid of all the negativity just as in the World State, where there is no negativity? How would you feel if the society we live in now was slowly changing to become like the World State?