Education: Get Adjusted

In the years A.F. (After Ford), cleanliness was next to Fordliness, Ford was in his flivver, and all was well with the world.

Writing about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk."

"And that," put in the Director, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims...

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