Orwell's dystopia is more palatable than Huxley's we are to blame in Huxley's version. We become Brave New World by getting exactly what we ask for: entertainm

Orwell's dystopia is more palatable than Huxley's we are to blame in Huxley's version. We become Brave New World by getting exactly what we ask for: entertainment, leisure, sex, escape/drugs, distraction. Compare that to 1984, where the dystopia is imposed on society from above, by a bureaucratic Party. People (en masse) are not introspective or forward-thinking. Of course we prefer to believe we're living in a dystopia forced upon us unwillingly, rather than one of our own making, brought on by our own inability to see the consequences of our own mass desires taken to their current extreme. We have no one to blame except ourselves.