{"id":57688,"date":"2021-05-05T19:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57688"},"modified":"2021-05-05T19:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:26:01","slug":"1984-vs-brave-new-world-which-dystopian-nightmare-is-likelier-to-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57688","title":{"rendered":"1984 vs. Brave New World: Which Dystopian Nightmare Is Likelier to Come True?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1984 vs. Brave New World: Which Dystopian Nightmare Is Likelier to Come True?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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That the global human population is hurdling towards dystopia at breakneck speed is a foregone conclusion by this point. The tea leaves read \u201cred\u201d with human pain and suffering.<\/p>\n

The deeper question remains: will the coming authoritarian hellscape be more\u00a0Mad-Max<\/em>\u2013kill-rape-pillage-scorched-Earth style<\/em>\u00a0or more\u00a0lobotomized-institutionalized-submissive-heavily-medicated style<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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In dystopian literary terms, will the horrific anti-human engineered society of tomorrow more resemble the vision of George Orwell\u2019s\u00a01984<\/em>\u00a0or Aldous Huxley\u2019s\u00a0Brave New World<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I read the first quarter of 1984, for the first time, at 15 years of age in the shed behind my father\u2019s house in Topeka, Kansas on top of the family lawnmower. His wife at the time had banished me from the house, so there I sat at dusk under dim light from a single light bulb in the corner. Things were dark.<\/p>\n

The human misery of Winston\u2019s world leapt from the pages in crystal-clear notes.<\/p>\n

\u201c1984\u201d in everyday parlance is synonymous with the ethos of that novel\u2019s brutal ruling class. The prevailing ideology of the state depicted by Orwell was summarized in its arguably most haunting quote, delivered by agent of state O\u2019Brien as he tortures the protagonist Winston:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face \u2013 forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Police state rule-by-cop<\/a>\u00a0is the standard concern when most civil libertarians discuss authoritarian overreach because it is the most visible, most obvious form of government power grab.<\/p>\n

The Party of 1984 (the state) pursues power not as a means to an end but as an end entirely of itself: the \u201cpressing forever\u201d on the nerve of power:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the world that we are preparing, Winston. A world of victory after victory, triumph after triumph after triumph: an endless pressing, pressing, pressing upon the nerve of power.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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1984 vs. Brave New World: Which Dystopian Nightmare Is Likelier to Come True? That the global human population is hurdling towards dystopia at breakneck speed is a foregone conclusion by this point. The tea leaves read \u201cred\u201d with human pain and suffering. The deeper question remains: will the coming authoritarian hellscape be more\u00a0Mad-Max\u2013kill-rape-pillage-scorched-Earth style\u00a0or more\u00a0lobotomized-institutionalized-submissive-heavily-medicated […]<\/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":[1212,10061,31075,10845,3880,1211,3899,15276],"class_list":["post-57688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-ben-bartee","tag-brave-new-world","tag-dystopia","tag-george-orwell","tag-ruling-class","tag-the-daily-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688","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=57688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57689,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688\/revisions\/57689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}