re: In your opinion, which dystopian world is more congruent with our current reality?

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1984 leaves out the “distractions” and “pleasure” that society partakes in in A Brave New World.

Those “distractions” are apparent in the modern world,

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Why BNW is much more applicable than 1984

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while a 1984 surveillance state is not, at least not applicable to the USA yet. It is more applicable to the UK.

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Unless, of course, we are The Proles, and our good friend Winston represents something along the lines of a low-level State Department worker. Archiving the internet is no longer done to the extend it was in the 2010s. There’s far more digital content and less print than ever.


No, we aren’t at threat of gathering and burning all the books, but control and manipulation of information in today’s age makes me think that in a lot of ways, the chocolate ration was increased to 20 grams this week when it was 30 last week.




I’ll also clarify that I’ve never read A Brave New World and have only made it halfway through 1984 (currently reading it, so there’s a ton of recency bias on my part).