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Communism is a social organization used to make everyone equal... no matter what it takes to get there. Usually, communist leaders use fear and violence to instill submission in to the people group. Huxley brings up an interesting thought in his book, Brave New World, and in his speech. Is a people group really being suppressed if they don't know it? If there is no desire to excel or be competitive, what is wrong with everyone being equal? If you can convince a people group that they are what they are and there is no way out, there is no disorder or competition or sadness or discomfort. Some books that comes to mind with this similar idea are the Divergent series. In Divergent, everyone is put into a town or society that have the same characteristics. In that society, they are given the same amounts of food. They wear the same type of clothing. They allude the same type of work. Everything is the same. When the superiorities find someone that is different, or divergent, through their character tests (testing positive in many different characteristics that meet criteria for a lot of the towns), they immediately destroy them or mark them as outcasts. No one questions as to why these tests are conducted or why everyone is separated. In the book, these superiorities suppress a revolution by the divergents.
One modern example would probably be the idea of standardized testing. Every teenager will take the same test. No matter how different a student maybe, they will have to take that test to determine their college readiness. I feel as if there are so many people that come from different walks of life that have so many different skill sets that go beyond such a "standard" (for lack of a better term) test. Not every public school is equal to a private school and vice versa. We all are taught differently and learn differently so why do we all get tested in a different manner than which we learned?