Brave New World - Four

"'We always throw away old clothes.  Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better...'" (pg 49).

Chapter three was kind of long, slightly confusing, and very tiring - probably should have looked to see how long the chapter was before I decided I wanted to walk on the treadmill for this chapter along with chapter two for four miles total.  This aphorism (though possibly antithesis) seems to portray the overall feeling from the collage of short saying scattered at the end of chapter three.  I can only feel like these are all being repeated to the children asleep while we read them, but I cannot actually piece together the actual meaning of all the phrases, though I assume Huxley will at some point reveal to us this message in its entirety.  This whole plot is clearly after destruction of several world super powers such as the French, Germans, and Polish.  Chapter three's second half seems to depict for the reader the past of the British empire with talks on Parliament and other legal documents that had survived - yet another reason they do not want the Delta's to read, I suppose.  It sounded as though there had been a war a  few centuries preceding the current time period.  This war could have been the reason for this seeming proverb of ending versus mending.  Great Britain possibly had to face the question of whether to mend its relationship with the pre-mentioned cultures or end them and go on with their own world of community, identity, and stability.  Hopefully this theme of ending versus mending becomes a recurring thought because I feel like it makes a fun plot twist for the prototypes versus true humans.  Unfortunately, I do not see this becoming a theme, but how cool would that be?  Ultimately, the stark contrast of the two phenomenons of ending a life or mending a wound could become the balance needed to keep this roofed world in harmony - and truly peaceful.