![]() In certain ways this is true, but in other significant ways it is not. The original Brave New World has often been considered a companion piece to George Orwell’s 1984. What is even more startling about Huxley’s prescience is that, in the postmodern world, not only have some of his predictions materialized but that they have in a certain sense become signposts of the socio-political and cultural framework of the western world. ![]() ![]() In his 1958 revisitation of the brave new world he envisioned in 1932, Aldous Huxley was shocked to see how many of his predictions had been realized, and, even more so, how quickly they had arrived: “The prophesies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would” (Huxley, 1958:4). most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution (Huxley, 1958). ![]()
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