"'And it's what you will never write,' said the Controller. 'Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello'" (Huxely 264).
Consumer culture in the Brave New World sacrifices the arts to give the people happiness, but this is a false sense of happiness because the root of their happiness is ignorance. The citizens of the world state are only shown few pleasures in life so to say that they are truly happy is that they are really just ignorant and this is what they have been taught to enjoy. However, the people are not able to feel the happiness and the plethora of emotions that come from art, but to say that they do not feel a real sense of happiness, because they only know few pleasures, is ignorant on its own. There are many people in the real world who only know few pleasures and are very happy. Although, the sacrifice of art is detrimental to this society, it is to say even if it were to be created here the meaning in the life of art has been degraded to nothing, and not one would ever understand it.
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