The Savage snaps, seeing the government hand out the drug soma. He feels that soma is one of the controlling factors of the people's minds and limits the peoples freedom. The peoples need for soma can be compared to addictions to prescription drugs that we see today. The men and women of the future society use soma to escape the hardships of everyday life, just as the men and women of today use prescription painkillers to accomplish the same task. The difference between today and the imagined tomorrow is that in today's world the government attempts to stop drug abuse, while the fictional government attempts to increase drug use. During this section the Savage and Mustapha Mond also begin discussing ideologies. The Savage believes in freedom, even at the price of unhappiness, while Mond believes in peace and happiness at the price of freedom and freewill. Mustapha Mond believes his viewpoints quite logical. The Savage sees that even though these ideas are logical, they go against liberty and commonsense.
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