"The optimum population," said Mustapha Mond, "is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above."
-Brave New World Page 223
Mustapha Mond explains the way that the society is shaped to the Savage. There can only be a very small percentage of Alphas in the whole population. There can only be a small percentage of Alphas because they share the closest resemblance to a free-thinker. They are conditioned and sleep taught, but not as severely as the rest of society. A large group of free-thinkers would become aware of their own oppression and stir up the masses in a revolution against the ruling powers. The government attempts to avoid these situations at all costs by creating a smaller amount of Alphas.
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