Brave New World II

   Is the one state a perfect society?
   While there are many things that I personally, or anyone from our society would miss in the one state, no one starves. In our society, our free choice is based on the idea that any person has the ability to change their economic and social status. Because of this, some people have more, and some less. In our society, we have free choice, but also poverty, starvation, and a large amount of unhappiness. In the one state, everyone is happy, and everyone has enough money. In my opinion, the loss of free choice is worth the guarantees of universal happiness and quality of life.
   Can the one state run out of soma?
   One question presented by many others is the problem that would be presented at the sudden loss of soma. While the society is completely dependent on the drug, the one state cannot run out of it. All aspects of the society are controlled by the few leaders of the government, and they are well aware that people are dependent on soma. If anything ever happened to a resource used in the making of soma, the one state would know beforehand and would have the ability to create a new drug to replace soma after it ran out.
   Why is the one state successful?
   In general, throughout history, no communist society has been very effective. In general, quality of life is very low, and governments become far too powerful over the people. In the one state, there are two key differences. People are subliminally trained to like their position in life, and the one state is organized. While we technically could provide a high standard of life to everyone in the world with the resources that we have, we have yet to do it in any system of government. The one state is organized in its control over life to the point of achieving that quality of life for everyone within. Also, people are content with their life positions. Along with the subliminal messages, many other aspects of the one state are designed to keep all people completely content with who they are. One of the main problems of modern communism is internal conflict about peoples different jobs and equal wealth, and the one state that found a way to keep people content.