"All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice."
The TPP world is coming.
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PardiGras ago
It's much more entertaining. And I would say more prophetic. Orwell predicted people too broken to resist totalitarianism, Huxley predicted people too dumb and preoccupied to even care to try.
deathcomesilent ago
For those that have read the books (or just want them summed up), Here is a fun little info-graphic comparing the overreaching predictions of huxley and orwell.