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>Apart from the 'savages' outside of the society
Note 'outside'.
>and the intellectuals that are exiled to distant colonies
Voluntary exile on NEETbux to live as you want in sandbox mode on an island of choice paid for by the masses to be edgy to your heart's content.

> and the superiors who run things for the drug addled masses.
I didn't see any evidence the superiors were unhappy. Mond seemed wise and content.

>There is a word for this: Indoctrination.
There's no such thing as not being 'indoctrinated', individuals don't exist in a vacuum and every society runs some form of cultural operating system.

>Unless what you want is not allowed.
All societies have certain limits to what is allowed otherwise society would not be possible. The difference is that in BNW most if not all people can live how they please within those limits, while in our societies so far a lot of people want things they can not get. Harmony between in the individual and the collective in BNW is optimised in BNW.

>This is ignoring the author's explicit declaration that it is not a Utopia in letters to Orwell alone.
What Huxley thinks is irrelevant.

Aldous Huxley
Oneohtrix Point Never