I agree. Orwell was writing what he knew. We have censored fakebook feeds filled with illiterate drivel, passive sedentary jobs and lifestyles. The list is endless. 1984 might explain the motives of the oligarchs but it is poor in predicting social life, it is more about the UK/London in the 1940s. Brave New World is closer in the way it depicts scientific social engineering but its predicted class system is not a 1:1 map of clown world. In Brave New World all the classes are socially "useful"
Demolition Man is looking scarily prescient.
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