In all seriousness the point of Brave New World is it's pleasant, it was Huxley taking shots at "decadent modernity" @damiengwalter
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Conservatives love BNW (even though Huxley is a v awkward fit with their ideology), they love attacking "decadence"
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Hitchens famously went on a rant about how 1984's old-school violence-and-suffering fascism is out-of-date and BNW is the relevant dystopia
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Hitchens was, on this point as with so many others, incredibly wrong
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I mean I'll be worried about a dystopia where there's too much pleasure and comfort and peace when it comes anywhere close to happening
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But till then I don't actually see the world of BNW as a threat, I see it mostly as a strawman of modernity used by reactionaries
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One reason 1984 is a great dystopia is it depends very little on speculative tech - the telescreens weren't THAT fanciful even at the time
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The Party in 1984 actively prefers HUMINT to SIGINT - you don't need that much tech if you've created a culture of snitching
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