The Pillars of Utopia

As I read the first part of Brave New World, I was struck by its industrial, that's-just-how-it-is mood and setting. I was immediately reminded of Soylent Green and its controlled environment where people may not choose their livelihood. Rather, they are provided it and must fall in line. This text follows that same idea as it introduces the world in an almost detached, lecture-style. The imbalance of power between people are obvious, and a specific quote made me pause and think on broad terms about Utopias and Dystopias alike.

(For context, here's the quote: "They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers...they'll be safe from books and botany all their lives" (Huxley 30)).

Why is it that, whether the Utopia is presented in either a positive or negative light, the first aspects of it to be addressed, enforced (in a foundational way to how the society runs), or controlled is education/entertainment/communication and agriculture? What reasons do the Director and D.H.C. have for choosing these specific things - innocent flowers and books - to frighten babies for besides revealing to readers that limiting the people from prose/poetry and plants of the earth, which can be sown and cultivated, is an effective tactic for dominance? In short, why are these two symbols always addressed in some way in Utopias?

p.s. How have these two symbols already been mentioned or oppressed in the text? How will it continue to be?

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