ALPHA


 * ALPHA**

WELCOME TO THE HOMEPAGE OF THE ALPHA CASTE

This page is only intended for the and brightest within our society. All others should not even attempt to understand the language and intellect presented on this page.



ALPHA members, welcome to your homepage. Here you can find more information about our prestigious caste and learn more about your role in society.

General information about our caste:
It is easy to identify the alpha members in our **GREY** uniform within society, since we are generally taller, smarter, and live longer than all other caste members. We are the intellectuals of our society and hold the best jobs and careers. We are superior to all other castes and are looked upon as the most powerful members within the caste system.

Alpha children wear grey. They work harder than anyone and they are frightfully clever.

Alphas are not mass-produced, and thus have a degree of individuality. That individuality extends, logically, to physical characteristics as well as to personality. In order to avoid weakening of the embryos, the alpha members never undergo the Bokanovsky process.

We are first in command, and superior to all other castes. We are the most respected due to our elite abilities and knowledge.

Quotes:
“We believe in happiness and stability. A society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable. Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas- that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and condi- tioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!”

"Lenina, meanwhile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station. "Fine," she agreed. "But queer that Alphas and Betas won't make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there.""

"We can't allow science to undo its own good work." World Controller Mustapha Mond, Chapter 17, pg. 227

"Everyone works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons..."

"Yes, and civilization is sterilization." Bernard, Chapter 7, pg. 110

"Community, Identity, Stability". Chapter 1, pg. 1

Available Job Opportunities:
Some examples of professions can be World Controllers (Alpha double Plus), Directors of Hatcheries, and Wardens. Bernard, a psychologist, is also an Alpha.

Examples of Alphas include Thomas, Henry Foster, Mustapha Mond, Bernard Marx, Benito Hoover, and Helmholtz Watson.
 * Thomas- The Alpha who is Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning.
 * Henry Foster- Henry is an Alpha who is administrator at the London Hatchery.
 * Bernard Marx- Bernard Marx is an Alpha-plus psychologist who specializes in hypnopaedia.
 * Mustapha Mond- Resident World Controller of Western Europe. He presides over one of the ten zones of the World State, the global government set up after the cataclysmic Nine Years' War and great Economic Collapse. Sophisticated and good-natured, His Fordship is an urbane and hyper-intelligent apologist for Brave New World and its velvet-gloved totalitarianism.
 * Helmholtz Watson- handsome and successful Alpha-plus lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. He is restive at the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State. Not least, he feels unfulfilled writing endless propaganda doggerel. Helmholtz is ultimately exiled to an Island - a cold asylum for disaffected Alpha-plus non-conformists - after reading a heretical poem to his students on the virtues of solitude.
 * The Warden – The Warden is the talkative chief administrator for the New Mexico Savage Reservation. He is an Alpha-minus.
 * After a long day at work come join fellow Alphas of a night full of orgy porgy.

Personal Testimony from fellow members:
"I, as a member of the ALPHA caste, was created for greatness and success. My intellectual capacity trumps over all other caste members and contenders. My individuality separates me from the rest and allows for others to notice my dominance. My size and stature give me the ability to tower over and command lower caste members." -- Harry Granger, Alpha caste member

Photos:
Below are photos of the different castes. We, the ALPHA caste, are the largest and best looking of all the castes.



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Additional research information:
The Savage asks why everyone isn’t made into an Alpha Double-Plus, the Controller responds by telling him a story about how an experiment was done on an island where everyone was an Alpha. Eventually almost everyone died because none of the Alphas were willing to do Epsilon work; they weren’t the least bit tolerant of authority. The Alpha and Beta embryos never undergo this dividing process, which can weaken the embryos. The Director explains that the Bokanovsky Process facilitates social stability because the clones it produces are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement its guiding motto: “Community, Identity, Stability.

"It's an absurdity. An Alpha-decanted, Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon Semi-Moron work–go mad, or start smashing things up. Alphas can be completely socialized–but only on condition that you make them do Alpha work. Only an Epsilon can be expected to make Epsilon sacrifices, for the good reason that for him they aren't sacrifices; they're the line of least resistance. His conditioning has laid down rails along which he's got to run. He can't help himself; he's foredoomed. Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottle–an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations. Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking, enormous. We should suffer acutely if we were confined in a narrower space. You cannot pour upper-caste champagne-surrogate into lower-caste bottles. It's obvious theoretically. But it has also been proved in actual practice. The result of the Cyprus experiment was convincing."

The forest of Burnham Beeches stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky. Crimson at the horizon, the last of the sunset faded, through orange, upwards into yellow and a pale watery green. Northwards, beyond and above the trees, the Internal and External Secretions factory glared with a fierce electric brilliance from every window of its twenty stories. Beneath them lay the buildings of the Golf Club–the huge Lower Caste barracks and, on the other side of a dividing wall, the smaller houses reserved for Alpha and Beta members.

Alphas are so conditioned that they do not have to be infantile in their emotional behaviour. But that is all the more reason for their making a special effort to conform. lt is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.