Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Some many important themes in this text which I absolutely loved!  While this text can be read as a warning of too much government control, it can also be read as a satire of Huxley's time.  The themes are clearly still relevant today and with more sense of urgency.  Some random thoughts:
1. Women do not seem to be dominant/powerful.  They are mainly portrayed as playthings.  Lenina as pneumatic - like an inflatable fuckable doll. 
2. Lack of relationships.  The humans in BNW are reduced to fuck-buddies.  There does not seem to be any deep friendship or relationships of any kind.
3. Everyone is just a number with a conditioned and 'predestined' role in society, even the Alpha-Pluses although they do have slightly more autonomy.
4. I am reminded of the pyramid of capitalism in which a few reap the benefits of this system while the majority (Epsilon Minus) toll for the property owners, the elites and the ruling class (Alpha Plus).  I started to wonder what rank I am...  Maybe a Gamma Minus or a Delta Plus.
5. I saw soma not just as a drug to make everyone happy necessarily but a 'drug' to numb everyone and to stop people from questioning authority.  It's easy to link soma to prescription drugs in today's BNW but I think soma also comes in the form of propaganda from the government, the education system and the media as well as but it could be consumerism, mindless entertainment, religion and other forms of dogma, etc.
6. Why are the choices the Brave New World, the Savage Reservation or exile?  Are there no other choices?
7. Why is monogamy so threatening in the BNW?  Isn't monogamy one of the best forms of mutual love and cooperation?  Would this not be good in the BNW?
8. To feel pain, to suffer is part of life but so is to feel happiness and pleasure.  I don't think that we have to feel pain in order to feel happy.  I think we want to live life not as an automaton in the BNW and this entails accepting the good and the bad, the pain and the pleasure of in life.  To live as an automaton (even a conditioned 'happy' one), to lack freedom is not really living.  As Bob Marley sings, "I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave".
9. Which brings me again to my veganism - there is no humane meat - the animals are still enslaved, fattened up for human-animal food.  They do not have the chance to be free.  Tell me how is this humane when organic free-range animals still end up at slaughterhouses with bolts shot into their heads (if they are cows).
10. I can relate to Bernard Marx's alienation.  I'm a manager but I do not feel like being a figure of authority and so I try to treat others as my equal.  I feel alienated around other managers.  I don't care to dress up like one and my heart lives with the workers than with management.  It's a funny place to be in...
11. Mustapha Mond can be seen as pragmatic but a sell-out, I think...  While I may not agree with all of John's actions or thoughts, I at least respect him for his principles and dignity.