Orwell knew what had already arrived he just added a sci fi layer to the way the British carry on. Same as Huxley, they were writing about what they knew. Huxley saw California in the 1930s and added a sci fi layer to write Brave New World TPTSB started the frog on a low heat a long time ago, its starting to really boil now
I thought I remembered reading that Huxley had a connection to Tavistock, but this is the only thing I could find after a short search. https://archive.org/details/AldousHuxley--TheUltimateRevolution--ABlueprintToEnslaveTheMasses
I remember James Corbett talking about him too. Huxley did more than just visit California. He was an insider who knew a lot of the people that were planning to do what he wrote about. H.G. Wells and Carrol Quigley fit the same mold.
Yeah Fabian Socialists, basically the Inner Party from 1984
I'm not even sure if they're the inner party, but they're certainly more inner than a lot of their public manifestations.
Imo it seemed like Orwell envisioned it being forced on us, whereas Huxley thought we would basically want it.
exactly. one was a violent repression of any dissent, the other was placating the masses and forgoing the need for dissent. Farenheit 451 is another good one.
What we'll likely see is a combination of all three....
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