Henry Ford

I researched Brave New World and found that Henry Ford influenced Huxley's novel. Huxley knew Ford's life and theories and incorporated them into his book. Ford was aware of the dangers of mass production and industrial progress, although he was in favor of the industrial era. A famous sentence from Henry Ford is "...absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past...What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means of progress." He defended progress and thought the consequences were worth it. What he thinks about history is that it is a chai of technological progress. Ford thinks of two types of workers: manual workers and the manager.

Any of this sound familiar? Well it should because this is the way Mustapha Mond is. All he wanted was stability in his new world, but it was at the cost of emotions, individuality, literature, and much more. Mond believed that this was worth it. They don't want to look at the past because their new world is "happy" and without wars. The whole society is made up of manual workers and they don't mind their work because they were taught to do so and don't really think for themselves. Assembly lines are used to make work routines which keeps the workers away from thinking, which is what the Controllers want.