"Passion," says one of the characters in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, "we need passion."

     Precisely.  We cannot live without passion.  We also cannot live, the novel goes on to suggest, without unhappiness.  Brave New World paints a portrait of a society in which unhappiness is frowned upon, even banned.  As the story winds to a close, however, some of the inhabitants of this world come to conclude that happiness isn't enough.  We need to be, they say, unhappy. We need to see both sides of life.


     Quite true.  Oddly enough, however, we cannot do so unless we are living in a broken world.
     Ah, the dilemma of being human.