HOW DO THINGS WORK IN PALA?

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HOW DO THINGS WORK IN PALA?

 Until his last novel, Island, Aldous Huxley was known as a counter-utopia author. One of the best known novel, Brave New World, is based on the assumption that science can dominate the world and bring happiness to humanity. But it is not good enough for people according to Huxley. As i researched, Huxley was watching the world and learning from the events how the science can be used to destroy humanity in the hands of bad managers, the rapid increase of the world population, the passion of consumption, the technology dependence of people. But he manages to maintain his optimistic look. He built this island, Pala. Thinking in Pala is as free as possible, there is no obstacle to human abilities and creativity.

 What kind of an island is this Pala? In the region of the Indonesian archipelago, Pala is a fantastic island. It is a mountainous island, separated from the neighboring island of Rendang by a sea gorge. Pala has rich oil, gold, copper deposits. Yet they only use them for Pala, they do not cooperate with foreign countries. The basic principle is to provide the island's people with a free, happy life.

 Education is one of the most important topic in Pala. The protection of the environment is an important issue in the education of young people and is the basis of morality. They believe that people can only be happy in a natural environment in a world that they can understand and love. The people of Pala are born peacefully, unarmed. There are no prisons in the island. They learn not only theoretical knowledge but also practical exercises. They start to go to school at sixteen and go on with their education until they are twenty four—half-time study and half-time work.
 

 All of the children of the island undergo a physical examination when they are four or five years old. Those who are hard-educated or deviant-prone are selected and measures are taken for their treatment. According to the principles of criminal Pala the tendency to commit arises from a disorder of secretions in the human body, so it requires improvement rather than punishment. Parents who have inherited diseases in their families' history can have healthy children through artificial insemination.

 In Pala, even the intellectuals make some works which require body strength. This does not make much sense for Will. Vijaya explains it as: "That's because you weren't taught to use your mind-body in the right way. If you'd been shown how to do things with the minimum of strain and the maximum of awareness, you'd enjoy even honest toil."

"Lenin used to say that electricity plus socialism equals communism. Our equations are rather different. Electricityminus heavyindustry plus birth control equals democracy and plenty. Electricity plus heavy industry minus birth control equals misery, totalitarianism and war." -Dr. Macphail

 What do they use for money?  Pala's a gold-producing country. They mine enough to give their paper a solid metallic backing.


 They have no need for conscription, or military hierarchies. Then there's their economic system: it doesn't permit anybody to become more than four or five times as rich as the average. Pala's a federationof self-governing units, geographical units, professional units, economic units—sothere's plenty of scope for small-scale initiative and democratic leaders, but no place for anykind of dictator at the head of a centralized government.

 They have a committee of writers which represents different parties and interests. They publish a newspaper and it is the only newspaper in Pala. 

 Between four and a half and five all the children get a thorough examination in the island. Blood tests, psychological tests, somatotyping; then they find the children which could cause troubles in future. After that, treatment starts immediately. Within a year practically all of them are perfectly normal.

 A couple days later, Rani sends a letter to Will. She says that they have to be quick now, they have to do something to change things. "It is essential that the three of us here should meet without delay to decide what must be done, in these newand swiftly changing circumstances, to promote our special interests, material and Spiritual."

 Will decides to not go to Rani. Instead of that, he wants to go to see Lakshmi, because she is about to die. Death is more important than business right now for Will. It is a change for him, the island is changing him.









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