The Prohibition Era could have influenced Huxley, as we see how, in his fictional society, the citizens rely heavily on the drug Soma. Similarly, during the Prohibition era, people did everything they could to conserve their alcohol, even going so far as to smuggle it and sell it illegally. It satirizes these people's dependence on their vices, by having the citizens of the World State have Soma as their crutches. The first Academy Awards may have influenced the "feelings" present in Brave New World, in that they both favored distracting from real social issues and letting them escape into fictional cinematic worlds. Huxley writes in his novel: "...reality, however utopian it may be, is something from which people feel the need to take fairly frequent vacations..." Showing how necessary it was to maintain the utopian peace that society pretended to have by keeping its citizens distracted. With the rise of Hitler came the idea of ​​a totalitarian government and the extermination of all foreign ideas and peoples. In Brave New World, the World State is governed by a select few and their rights are severely limited, if not completely absent, and those who oppose this form of government are isolated.