He would consider sub-men those people who are people who “have eyes and ears, but from their childhood onwards make themselves blind and deaf, without love and without desire” (338 ). Every person in the World State society cannot think for themselves because every human being is subjected to different tests to dislike something. There is no freedom in the world state. When freedom is present, a person can make a choice. They do not recognize freedom and they do not recognize choice. Another example in Beauvoir's reading is how the serious man never questions anything. The serious man only acts and does what he is told. He writes: “A serious man questions nothing. For the military the army is useful" (341). The World State has carried around hundreds of books important to history. Since the children don't know the story, they don't ask questions. Asking questions is what drives progress in almost every subject. If people didn't ask questions and assume that everything a man says is right, then everyone would be equal. There wouldn't be