re: What are your Top 5 books about American Politics?

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mean if we’re gonna do fictional allegories, we may as well add 1984.

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I remember pondering whether the oppressive surveillance state of 1984 or the drug induced sexual hedonism of Brave New World better predicted the future.

Orwell predicted a future in which the State maintains control through brainwashing, terror and war while Huxley envisioned a future in which citizens are conditioned by the State to embrace their servitude by becoming slaves to pleasure.

I once leaned toward believing that BNW better predicted the future yet it increasingly seems that we are transforming into a society that maintains the worst aspects of both works.