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PatSeg

(49,755 posts)
5. Me too
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 09:48 AM
Dec 15

I didn't take such books as science fiction, but more as a prophetic warning. I hoped I wouldn't see it in my lifetime though.

soldierant

(8,075 posts)
6. Well, I don't believe we'll see Brave New World. Not now, not ever.
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 10:25 AM
Dec 15

The people in that world may have been conditioned in what substituted for in utero, and they may have been systematically drugged, but they weren't miserable - they were mostly happy - the protagonist stood out because he wasn't, and many blieved somthinghas gone wrong with his pre-natal chemicals. No dictator in real life will ever enforce a system which tries to make everyone happy. For one thing, it costs too much. For another, those who have an authoritarian temperament, whether leaders or followers, cannot be happy unless someone else is miserable.

JanMichael

(25,352 posts)
9. Good point. Bernard would be balls deep in the manosohere
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:53 AM
Dec 15

In 2024.

Stereotypical malcontent.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,866 posts)
7. That is so depressingly true
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 10:41 AM
Dec 15

Just like Idiocracy.

The only mistake in that movie was that it took 500 years.

Archae

(46,927 posts)
8. I'm reminded of a SF short story I read years ago...
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 10:54 AM
Dec 15

Where everyone lives in a dictatorship run by corporations.

People are required to buy products heavily advertised, that simply don't work.
Or they work erratically.

republianmushroom

(18,371 posts)
10. Given time, there will be no peasant intelligent enough to read a book.
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 12:05 PM
Dec 15

But, every one will be required to have one, like Mao Zedong's little red book, only this one will have trumps quotas.

BoRaGard

(3,427 posts)
13. May pleasant peasants proliferate, too
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 12:30 PM
Dec 15

Same for us proles.

May the G.O.P.'s Boastful Billionaire Bros toss us a crumb every decade or so.

drmeow

(5,371 posts)
15. I agres with the literary snob
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 10:09 PM
Dec 15

who said at the bottom:

"I believe that both Huxley and Orwell were right."

You could find evidence for every one of their points about both author's work.

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