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In 1984, people are largely controlled by punishment and the threat of punishment.

Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude… we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984.” But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.

“In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. According to Huxley, recent historical events had made Brave New World a much more likely scenario: Interestingly, Huxley also compares the future envisioned by Brave New World to that of George Orwell’s comparably famous dystopian novel 1984. The nightmare of total organization, which I had situated in the seventh century After Ford, has emerged from the safe, remote future and is now awaiting us, just around the next corner.” In the rest of the world freedom for individuals has already gone, or is manifestly about to go. But even in those countries that have a tradition of democratic government, this freedom and even the desire for this freedom seem to be on the wane. “In the West, it is true, individual men and women still enjoy a large measure of freedom. His conclusion? “The prophecies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would.” In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited, he looked back on his novel and reflected on how accurate its predictions of the future had been (you can read the whole work here ). In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World-a dystopian novel imagining a future in which people live in a highly organized society that they are conditioned to accept.

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