It's not really an either or: they both identified bad habits modern society is falling into. But whereas Orwell may have more recognizable details, the in the

It's not really an either or: they both identified bad habits modern society is falling into. But whereas Orwell may have more recognizable details, the in the broader strokes it's Huxley that seems more apropos: people are choosing for this life. In Orwell's world dissent and choice were suppressed; in Huxleys they were voluntarily discarded. No matter how nasty the scandals surrounding the NSA are or how overblown the rhetoric in the neverending "war on terror", I don't think anybody (sane) is suggesting we cannot end them. Sure, some dissent is punished harshly (manning, snowden), but for society at large the current state of affairs is entirely by choice.