Because we have a need to understand the world around us - some more than others - most people, myself included, tend to look to George Orwell's 1984 as the right model in terms of which one should understand the present drive for suppressive control we see all around us.
Predictably, people inhabiting Orwell's world were sad and frightened; those portrayed by Huxley were carefree and playful.
Orwell's 1984 is probably better known than Huxley's Brave New World.
One might think of the futuristic society that Huxley depicted in Brave New World as the complete antithesis of such abject conditions of squalor: people in this imagined world are happy, conditioned according to 'neo-Pavlovian' tenets, and have no problem conforming to what is expected of them.
The main 'outside' has the shape of a 'Savage Reservation' where people live, minus the standard in vitro reproduction and the conveyor-belt conditioning that is pervasive in the eponymous 'brave new world,' where Henry Ford is regarded as a deity.
Although the goal in Huxley's 'brave new world' society is the same as in Orwell's fictional Airstrip One the means for achieving this are vastly different, and most of us would, if given the choice, choose Huxley's alternative - even if reading this review essay of Brave New World would make you realise that it is a far cry from the world we are accustomed to.
' Whatever the case may be, make no mistake - unless we confront and fight these psychopaths with everything at our disposal, we shall all end up either in their obediently compliant perversion of a society, or in one of the internment camps already being built in all 50 states in America 'for non-compliant dissidents,' or - my personal preference - a 'Savage Reserve' la Brave New World, where we can live as humans, and not 'trans-humans.
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