I always believed that what Huxley described in Brave New World was not only more pernicious, but also what was already actually happening. That’s not to say that more Orwellian forebodings are not/have not been coming to pass, but I fear more people are paying attention to Orwell on the one hand, while completely oblivious to Huxley on the other, precisely because they are already consumed with distractions.
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I want to read both books now. When I was fourteen, my teacher tried to force Nineteen Eighty-Four on my class (none of...
Yeah, reading Huxley this summer, insha’Allah :).