A Brave New World

ENTIRE POST BELOW IS BY STEPHEN

As per the suggestion of Chris, I've read some of this on-line.

/makemicromusic/topicId_14190.html#14256

There are some interesting parts. I'll post some below. Not too
much or no one will read it all. People can comment or not. I
just had some time.

I'm not sure if the entire book is here. (?)

The link below goes to Chapter 17 which is the best chapter.
Chapters 3 and 5 are also interesting. Chapter 5
has musical references.

http://www.readprint.com/chapter-5929/Aldous-Huxley

The excerpt below has obvious relevance to my recent posts.

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"But God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic. If
you had a God..."

"My dear young friend," said Mustapha Mond, "civilization has
absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms
of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like
ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.
Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion
can arise. Where there are wars, where there are divided
allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of
love to be fought for or defended–there, obviously, nobility and
heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays. The
greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much...

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"But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe
in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about
death..."

"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them
hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost
impossible for them ever to have it."

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MORE IS BELOW IF THE READER HAS INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT >>>>

There is no way to know what Aldous Huxley was thinking when
he choose the name Mustapha Mond for this powerful man.
If he was thinking
along the lines of Islam or not. Too late to know now. I did
come up with some info below if anyone is into onomastics.

Apparently Mustapha Mond means literally: "the chosen one
of the world". Condsidering what he says in the book, Mustapha
Mond is obviously a anti-Christ.

Another excerpt from same chapter is below:

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The Controller, meanwhile, had crossed to the other side of the room
and was unlocking a large safe set into the wall between the
bookshelves. The heavy door swung open. Rummaging in the darkness
within, "It's a subject," he said, "that has always had a great
interest for me." He pulled out a thick black volume. "You've never
read this, for example."

The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New
Testaments," he read aloud from the title-page.

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First a brief view of the character, Mustapha Mond.

http://www.huxley.net/whoswho.htm

MUSTAPHA MOND

Resident World Controller of Western Europe. He presides over one of
the ten zones of the World State, the global government set up after
the cataclysmic Nine Years' War and great Economic Collapse.

The Controller argues that art, literature and scientific freedom
must be sacrificed in order to secure the ultimate utilitarian goal
of maximising societal happiness. He defends the genetic caste
system, behavioural conditioning and the lack of personal freedom in
the World State as a price worth paying for achieving social
stability. Stability is the highest social virtue because it leads
to lasting happiness.

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Mustapha - Variant of Arabic Mustafa, meaning "the chosen one."

http://www.20000-names.com/male_m_names_4.htm
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Mond - world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustapha_Mond
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_veneration_for_Muhammad

Muhammad is often referenced with titles of praise:

Al Mustafa, "the chosen one"

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http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?
terms=Mustapha&nmd=n&gender=both&operator=or

MUSTAPHA
Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic

Other Scripts: ãÕØÝì (Arabic)

Variant transcription of MUSTAFA
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http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=mustafa

MUSTAFA
Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic

Other Scripts: ãÕØÝì (Arabic)

Means "the chosen one" in Arabic, an epithet of Muhammad. A famous
bearer was Mustafa Kamal, also known as Ataturk, the founder of
modern Turkey.