Pettiness in Brave New World

Everyone is very judgmental in Brave New World even though its supposed to be a culture where everyone is everyone's which is why sexual promiscuity isn't taboo but they still find minor infractions to be petty about. The perfect example of this is when John won't participate in the party everyone instantly turns on Bernard and everyone Bernard was trying to impress gets fed up with his attitude and now have a reason to stop sucking up to him (172). Even Mustapha Mond, someone who has access to books that no one else is allowed to read and who is supposed to be very wise and respected, is insulted by Bernard's attitude in his reports (159). In both cases it is a sense of pride that causes them to dislike Bernard who is acting self important but this is strange because they are acting self important too by thinking that they are better than Bernard and therefore being insulted by his new found confidence. Earlier in the book I got the impression that everything in this society ran as if it was a machine or an ant hill but now I see that that is just a facade and that everyone still has emotion that dictates action but with some conflict between different kinds of conditioning sprinkled into the story to make it interesting.