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06:27

Huxley's Letter to Orwell Regarding "1984" - disinformation

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In case you aren’t aware, Aldous Huxley was George Orwell’s French teacher at Eton College. The below letter contains Huxley’s brief review and initial thoughts on Orwell’s iconic masterpiece.


“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”

I think a lot of people don’t mention that they ended up both being right.  Orwell was right when it came to states like North Korea or communist dictatorships and Iraq, and Huxley was right when it came to the western first world.

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