Brave New World: Chapter 11~ No such thing as a distraction in a book

"'We don't encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements'" (Huxely 166).

The worlds consumer culture demands that people do not take part in solitary distractions because this would enable them to think for themselves. Now this is a good thing because it keeps the social stability without really needing to enforce anything; furthermore, in this direction of accomplishing social stability there is no use for drugs. However, the defect of this way of accomplishing social stability is that no one may be able to rise with their own power for they can never be alone to think of how to get things done. Of course this stands for most of the population which is why this way of consumer culture keeps stability, but this can be very problematic when the time comes for people to think for themselves because in this world, the Brave New World, people may only conform and to conform in a way is to degrade one's self.