One thing an adolescence of reading dystopian sci fi didn't prepare me for is the seemingly sheer incompetence of Western governments in the real world compared

One thing an adolescence of reading dystopian sci fi didn't prepare me for is the seemingly sheer incompetence of Western governments in the real world compared to the ones of Orwell and Huxley. If we needed to be further bred for complacency it would have to compete with bread and circuses for cost effectiveness.