nah, Brave New World is infinitely preferably to our future, we could never come close to central planning on that level at this rate.
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Not necessary, cuz it turns out it was never necessary to do all the human bioengineering and mass sedation in order to make the populace complacent after all
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Yeah thats the one thing that Brave New World didn't get right we're still a nation of fucking prudes.
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It's not on many high school assigned reading lists. That's the last time most people read anything that isn't a celeb memoir, YA, or genre fiction.
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animal farm is the more prescient orwell novel too!
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No one has read it
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It seems like it had its cultural moment in connection to the evolution of TV news in the 80s and 90s (it was the basis of the argument in Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, for instance) but hasn't been deployed nearly as often in connection to Internet.
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ummm where is my government mandated job and prescription heroin????
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