Huxley uses the Savage Reservation to contrast the World State. While the one is free and connected to nature, the other is restrained and mechanical. However, Huxley does not mean to praise the Savages. In some ways, their practices are more perverse than those of civilized society. Self-abuse and constant sacrifice are exalted in their society, and the people live in absolute squalor, with little development or happiness. Huxley uses the Reservation and the State to say that human beings are trapped "between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other" (vii). Returning to the past can cause us insanity, with a devotion to tradition that can prevent adaptation and lead to desolation for the people. Rushing into the future with utopian ideals can destroy our freedoms. Both major paths before humans can lead to their own forms of ruin, and we as a society must find another way into the future in order to avoid our own madness.
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