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I find Aldous Huxley's Brave New World much more relatable to 21st century US society. A great deal more from the society of The World State and Fordism maps to
by cratermoon 1y ago
I find Aldous Huxley's Brave New World much more relatable to 21st century US society. A great deal more from the society of The World State and Fordism maps to current structures.
- rixed 1y agoThere is an important element in 1984 that is missing from BNW and very relevant to modern history: the never-ending fictious war between several similar regimes to justify internal control. In my opinion, the movie "Brazil" (inspired by 1984) made the same argument even more modern by replacing that war on some external "enemy" with a war on internal "terrorists". Unfortunately, 1984 and BNW are not exclusive, and certainy social psychology can implement elements of both.
- cratermoon 1y agoBrave New World has an enemy: nonconformists within the society itself. If you ask me, that's both much more insidious and more relevant to the US in the 21st century.
- pndy 1y agoProbably because people tend to think in extremes and "1984" shows the ultimate dystopian world set around totalitarian regime, mass invigilation with no place for individuality. "Brave New World" is indeed much closer to our real world but honestly, I think our reality seems to be heading in a direction where we'll see more of both novels in it. I recommend reading both and Eugene Zamiatin's "We" novel which most likely inspired both Orwell and Huxley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)?useskin=vector