BNW Blog #2 - Conditioning Lenina vs. John

Lenina:

• Gives into the idea that society should be put before the individual
• Wants people to be very forward in their advances on eachother. Emphasizes liking someone in an encounter without emotional attachment
• She lost individualism through her conditioning by being conditioned through a technological and uniform approach
• Hypnopaedia has taken all control over her personality and cognitive developments to rigidly define right and wrong, there is no grey area and she is the same as everyone else

John:

• Has genuine affection for people, especially for Linda
• Shows reluctance in making advances towards women. Emphasizes *love* in a relationship with emotional attachment
• Is conditioned through nuanced and varying aspects of the natural human condition (relatively natural) that he is surrounded with on the reservation
• The Shakespearan conditioning was part of a larger system of conditioning. John learned from the ways of life of the savages, but also from Shakespeares teachings. This allowed for John to interpret the interactions he had with others so he had a part in his conditioning

Lenina is unable to emphasize with John's approach to the relationship with her, becuase she doesn't understand how a person might be reluctant to enter a relationship the way John (and most of us) see relationshps. John is also unable to express his love for Lenina in a way she can understand what he means because she literally has no concept of love.