Dystopia or Utopia

Brave New World Page 215
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.

It is John’s declaration, “I don’t want comfort, I want God,” in which his preferred mode of agency is revealed to be ingrained in conflicts and solutions only available to humans conditioned in suffering. In order to illustrate his point and firmly establish his role as a pariah, John exclaims that he would favor a world predicated upon the incongruities of “God” and “freedom” or “goodness” and “sin” to that of a world of pragmatic utilitarianism offered by Mond. Thus, by adhering to an ethos of a fierce and, perhaps, primitive dialectic scheme, John enhances his assertion that people should have “the right to be unhappy” in order to live a life that would be more meaningful.

Interestingly, Mond’s assessment of humans suffering needlessly from “syphilis” and living in a “constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow” has little effect upon John. Instead, John, who is only referred to as” the Savage” after Linda’s death, is quite eager “to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind” and firmly denies the values of this “Brave New World” he now occupies. Yet, it is in Mond’s final indifferent shrug and “your welcome” in which the world of technology, “soma”, and uninhibited sexuality trump “the Savage’s” nihilistic individualism by simply allowing him the freedom to destroy himself with his own misguided ideas.

Is the society Mond oversees really a dystopia? If John’s perspective results in Petrarchan, love and suicide because of his own conditioning, is it worth pursuing?