It becomes clear as you read the first chapter of this
amazing book and we are given a tour of a "Hatchery" that there are five castes in this
society, each named after the first five letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta,
gamma, delta, epsilon. It also becomes clear that they are organised in order of
importance, with alphas being the most important and epsilons the least. Consider what
the Director of Hatcheries says to his visitors:
"We also predestine and condition. We decant our
babies as socialised human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or
future..." He was going to say future World Controllers, but correcting himself, said
"future Directors of Hatcheries"
instead.
As we read on it
becomes clear that Epsilons are given less oxygen to ensure that they have an "Epsilon
environment as well as an Epsilon heredity" ensuring that this society is not troubled
by any intelligent Epsilons.
Thus the first chapter
introduces us to the most radically stratified class system in the world, all organized
by genetic engineering and advanced science, to create five types of humans with clearly
demarcated positions and roles in society.
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