And of course intelligence has been rising as measured by IQ. I think the books are a warning and contain some truth. I have not read BNW, but 1984 can be used

And of course intelligence has been rising as measured by IQ. I think the books are a warning and contain some truth. I have not read BNW, but 1984 can be used as Machiavelli's Prince, as a prescription, rather than description, of how it could be. So the book is a warning. Also, I wanted to say, although it might have been written to describe communism, I think unless you take it literally, much of it resonates with democratic societies also. For example, how the three states keep being at war one day and friends another and how everyone forgets this and how they always are at war. That is quite a good description of the west in some ways.