In Brave New World, what is the power of words/propoganda in the new world?I know that they brain washed and controlled the whole community with...

In 1958 Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World
Revisited in which he wrote of what he perceived as the threats to humanity
that had developed since the publication of his novel.  These threats were
overpopulation, scientific and technological advancement, man's willingness to
relinguish his freedom for a life of ease, and propaganda.  In his novel, Huxley
depicted propaganda mainly through the hypnopoedia of the New World.  From infancy, the
children have ideas inculcated in their brains.  Then, as children the separate castes
run around naked with one another so that they learn that "everyone belongs to everyone
else."

When people tour the Hatchery, the Director explains
the conditioning that is performed,

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"We condition the masses to hate the
country....But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports.  at the same
time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate
appaaratus.  So that they consume manufactured articles as well as
transport."

As children ask
about things such as natural childbirth, the Director explains, giving the "unpleasant
facts" of mothers and fathers, a unpleasantness, which, he says are typical of
historical facts.  (Because history is unpleasant, children are taught none.)  So, since
history is unpleasant, the New World changes it.  For one thing, time begins with the
year of Our Ford, Henry Ford being the initiator of assembly line production, which is
the method now for the creation of human beings.

Religion
has been replaced by the worship of consumerism and the  Solidarity Services where "the
moral education" of the New World ideas are reinforced, along with the help of
soma.  People make a sign of the T on their stomach, a sign that
has replaced the religious sign of the cross. At the Solidarity Service, people join
together in an excited parody of an evangelical revival, absorbing all that is told
them.  And, because there are no books read, the people of the New World have only what
they are told to believe.  For, books contain the ideas of great thinkers of the past,
ideas which can cause unrest in a society.