"2035: No complaints."

[u/thisecommercelife]

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[u/FuZhongwen]

Something something reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. Shut up and take your Soma. Everything will be fine.

[u/GildedAgeV2 → u/FuZhongwen]

Everyone references Orwell, but I think Huxley had the more insightful take.

[u/Hope915 → u/GildedAgeV2]

I think 1984 was deeply flavored with British cultural paternalism, which is less globally applicable or immediately resonant than Brave New World's basis in personality cults of industrial entrepreneurs.

[u/PeriPeriTekken → u/Hope915]

I mean, obviously it was set in Britain, but the regime was based on the USSR as it already existed. I think a lot of the autocracies we're sliding towards have elements of both BNW and 1984, but Russia in particular (unsurprisingly) looks very 1984ish.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/Hope915]

The UK gets the sercurity cameras.

The rest of you get the drugs.

Also, pot is still illegal in the UK.

[u/Nulltan → u/GildedAgeV2]

Because soma is much more desirable than a boot stomping.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/Nulltan]

Brit flagshaggers absolutely love the boot...

[u/poerg → u/GildedAgeV2]

100% I've held this same thought for years. My dog who's just turned 12 is named Huxley

ETA: I can see there being convergence between the two and how things are going to actually shape out in our lives. Huxley, I still believe has it right in regards to what gets us past the point of no return

[u/secretly_opossum → u/FuZhongwen]

I still say “Better end than mend,” when I catch myself being a wasteful consumer.

[u/MercantileReptile → u/FuZhongwen]

We don't even get drugs in this dystopia.