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Aldous Huxley wrote his classic work of fiction, Brave New World. Set in the distant future, this book depicts a scientifically managed dystopian society. In Brave New World, the ruling authorities attained mass compliance not through force, but by supplying the masses with distracting entertainment and drugs. According to Huxley, this totalitarianism was most likely to solidify in the 21st century. Do we live in a Brave New World?

In his 1958 book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the following: “If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social engineers — and the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific […]

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