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In reply to the discussion: Huxley vs Orwell who got it right? Comix [View all]paleotn
(19,189 posts)68. Thanks for posting this. Very interesting stuff....
....Given our culture's focus on individualism, I'd say both are correct, but at different points in time. It's a take on the old adage of a frog in a pot. Huxley to lull us into the present stupor. Once it's perceived as impossible to make a significant change in trajectory, the gloves come off. Authoritarians will be authoritarians after all. They enjoy brutal suppression and grow weary of of the present velvet gloves.
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it was an extension of his "anti-totalitarianism"--which of course is what McCarthyism
MisterP
Nov 2015
#83
Both are right, 1984 is not really speculative fiction, it is allegorical reporting on 1948 and
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#6
Huxley's truth is primordial; Orwell's truth exploits and builds on it, imo.
Joe Chi Minh
Nov 2015
#12
Ah, the question that will not die: Huxley or Orwell? The correct answer is Burgess. nt
merrily
Nov 2015
#52
Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451 are often forgotten in these comparisons, and he was just as prescient.
rwsanders
Nov 2015
#63
Dick had the most briliantly paranoid and dystopian imagination of any SF writer, but...
Nitram
Nov 2015
#79