{"id":40616,"date":"2018-11-17T07:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40616"},"modified":"2018-11-17T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T12:49:49","slug":"why-orwell-is-superior-to-huxley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40616","title":{"rendered":"Why Orwell Is Superior to Huxley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemblock\">\n<h3 class=\"head\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/why-orwell-is-superior-to-huxley\/\">Why Orwell Is Superior to Huxley<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"contents-holder\" class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"page-thumb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-page-thumbsize wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unzcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1118357321-600x430.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_1118357321\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">One of the frequent comparisons that comes up in the Dissident Right is who was more correct or prescient, Orwell or Huxley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In fact, as the only truly oppressed intellectual group, the Dissident Right are the only ones in a position to offer a valid opinion on this, as no other group of intellectuals suffers deplatforming, doxxing, and dismissal from jobs as much as we do. In the present day, it is only the Dissident Right that exists in the \u2018tyrannical space\u2019 explored in those two dystopian classics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But, despite this, this debate exists not only on the Dissident Right but further afield. Believe it or not, even Left-wingers and Liberals debate this question, as if they too are under the heel of the oppressor\u2019s jackboot. In fact, they feel so oppressed that some of them are even driven to discuss it in the pages of the <i>New York Times<\/i> at the despotically high rate of pay which that no doubt involves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In both the Left and the Dissident Right, the consensus is that Huxley is far superior to Orwell, although, according to the <i>New York Times<\/i> article just alluded to, Orwell has caught up a lot since the election of Donald Trump. Have a look at this laughable, \u201cI\u2019m literally shaking\u201d <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/13\/books\/review\/which-dystopian-novel-got-it-right-orwells-1984-or-huxleys-brave-new-world.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/13\/books\/review\/which-dystopian-novel-got-it-right-orwells-1984-or-huxleys-brave-new-world.html\">prose from <em>New York Times<\/em> writer Charles McGrath<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">And yet [Huxley&#8217;s] novel much more accurately evokes the country we live in now, especially in its depiction of a culture preoccupied with sex and mindless pop entertainment, than does Orwell\u2019s more ominous book, which seems to be imagining someplace like North Korea. Or it did until Donald Trump was inaugurated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"open\">\n<div class=\"section-holder\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Orwell Is Superior to Huxley One of the frequent comparisons that comes up in the Dissident Right is who was more correct or prescient, Orwell or Huxley. In fact, as the only truly oppressed intellectual group, the Dissident Right are the only ones in a position to offer a valid opinion on this, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10061,23025,23026,7844,1211,5632,19452,1492,827],"class_list":["post-40616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-colin-liddell","tag-dissident-right","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-orwell","tag-oppression","tag-the-unz-review","tag-tyranny","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40617,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616\/revisions\/40617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}