The answer to this question is found in Chapter
12.
I would say that it is not that Mond can't publish the
paper -- what is going on is that he will not publish it.
He could if he wanted to, but he does not want to.
The
problem with the paper is that it contains ideas that will upset and destabilize
society. Their society is based on the idea that happiness is the highest good and that
people should want only to be happy. The paper somehow (we do not know how) implies
that there is or should be some other purpose to life.
The
paper would encourage people to think more rather than just doing things for fun. That
would be bad for society and so Mond is not willing to publish the
paper.
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