"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder." (the director said it)
"When the individual feels, the community reels."
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The book "Brave New World" examines what would happen if we valued group identity completely over individual identity.
The motto refers to making the group (community) your identity will provide a stable (safe) environment. In the book, they encouraged (enforced) considering yourself a group member first and putting "the needs of the many over the needs of the few" (sorry, that's from Star Trek).
The second quote is a revision of a line from a typical Christian wedding ceremony: "What GOD has joined, let no man put asunder," meaning this is a holy union. BNW removed God from everything and replaced it with "nature" and the "natural order".
"When the individual feels, the community reels," again refers to putting the needs of the community first. If people have individual feels, wants and desires, (and act on them) it will make the group (community) unstable.
Basically, the community had given up individual indentity and individual thoughts and feelings to get what was perceived as a better safer, more stable community. In theory, this sounds like it would work and fits with many of our values of "teamwork", "it takes a village to raise a child" not to mention how we value "self sacrifice" to achieve a goal for the group. By pushing this idea to the extreme, BNW examines the concept of indivual needs vs the needs of the community.
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