Fulfilling the Prophecy of the Brave New World "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of the World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a state intent on keeping itself intact. In the stable state, people must be happy with the status quo; they must not be able to imagine a better world and they must not think of a worse one. In the stable state, some people should be able to deal with unexpected change, but they should not be able to initiate it. In the stable state, the population must have certain proportions of satisfied citizens and innovators who can coexist. The United States has already succeeded in creating the ideal population distribution: that of an iceberg, keeping nine-tenths of the population below the ocean's waterline. of consumer culture, and just a tenth above. In this field, this nation surpasses the World State: the American status quo appears to be maintained by entirely natural forces. The United States does not use fetal alcohol syndrome, Bokanovskification, or hypnopedia to manipulate the population. Instead, it uses the human tendency to absorb and accept society's traditions for conditioning, allows for smooth social mobility to distribute people to their appropriate places in society, and offers a wide choice of entertainment to occupy time and save people unnecessary and unnecessary painful thoughts about their condition. The American waterline is defined by the country's culture; the American waterline defines the necessities of happiness and the necessity of happiness. Some of the essentials of happiness today include a car, a television, a stereo, and access to mass media twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Another integral part of happiness is the freedom to improvise... middle of paper... trying to make the lightest tennis racket, the best golf club, or the fastest flying golf ball. The mass media provide families with an inexhaustible source of relatively cheap entertainment, and also reinforce the American ideal of happiness: free consumption for consumption's sake. Aldous Huxley predicted an overly elaborate method of achieving stability. A more natural path to the same goal allows people to believe they are in control of their fortunes, because then they are docile without conditioning and happy without burden. The illusion of power is itself happiness and the most powerful tool of social control. In fact, a state well governed with this instrument cannot escape stability. A few more decades will pass, the United States will solve the problem of poverty and Huxley's prediction will have come true five centuries early.