I want to agree with you. 'Brave New World' did seem a better designed vision of a society. But there's no society yet that resembles it quite as closely as Nor

I want to agree with you. 'Brave New World' did seem a better designed vision of a society. But there's no society yet that resembles it quite as closely as North Korea resembles Oceania. As Christopher Hitchens said, 1984 was published in the same year that the Korean war ended. It's almost like Kim Il-Sun read the book and thought, 'I think we can make this work'. And he did.