NEW YORK – Ted Cruz pulled ahead of Donald Trump in a national survey published late Wednesday by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, marking the first time in months that the New York billionaire and former reality TV star hasn't topped the results of a nationwide voter poll.
Cruz, a Texas Senator, was the choice of 28 percent while Trump had 26 percent, the poll shows. The survey of 800 registered voters has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points, which suggests the two are locked in a dead heat. The results among 400 likely Republican primary voters had a margin of error of almost 5 percentage points.
In Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel "Brave New World," sex is nothing more than a conditioned, physical interaction between two consenting adults. People are pre-conditioned from a young age to believe that "everyone belongs to everyone else," and concepts like commitment and monogamy are virtually nonexistent. Sex is completely divorced from procreation; babies are "decanted" in laboratories and are raised by the State. All of this is the result of an elaborate system of social conditioning that begins, in most cases, before the age of reason. Sex is so stripped of its inherent meaning that even desire for sex has to be cultivated through things like the drug soma, sex-hormone chewing gum, and the "feelies," which are essentially pornographic films viewed in theaters.
Today, in 2016, it seems that social conditioning in our entertainment, academia, and even our government is putting our society on a path toward a brave new world all our own. Nowhere is this clearer than on our college campuses. The hook-up culture that is prominent on so many campuses has all but supplanted traditional dating mores. Fewer students are going on actual dates, and more are hooking up at parties, often with alcohol involved. Students are "conditioned" through music, movies, and television to think that hook-ups are fun, pleasurable, and free from consequences.
