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The society is productive and safe but freedom and individuality are sacrificed in order to acheive the kind of society. is the sacrifice worth it?

I would say that the message of the book seems to be that the sacrifice is almost, but not quite, worth it. The author shows that there are positives in this "brave new world" but that overall the human spirit needs to be free, that chemical happiness is no substitute for the real thing, and that struggle and pain, when it leads to better things, is worth it.