There's little doubt that Orwell is the most popular name in dystopian literature. Huxley is up there; but, more people are willing to admit that they haven't read him than Orwell.
For all of the talk of threats to our democracy, we should understand what these guys were talking about.
Orwell is best known for 1984 and Animal Farm. 1984 will be more relevant here. Huxley is best known for Brave New World.
They attack dystopia from different perspectives; but, they both basically come down to the control of the mind.
For as much as a gun guy as I am, we've already had an assault weapons ban, and we're fine. I'll still fight tooth and nail against another one; but, I can't say that it destroyed our democracy. You can pick any pet issue on the side of the Democrats, and I can tell you how losing it hasn't destroyed our democracy.
Why I'm voting mostly Republican this time around isn't because I'm a Republican. I'm a libertarian. I'm against dystopia coming to America. So, first and foremost, we have to worry about the freedom of the mind.
Republicans say dumb shit all the time about wanting to throw people in prison or deport people for disrespecting the flag. So do the Democrats.
The Republicans have yet to introduce a Disinformation Governance Board, which was so transparently Orwellian that it quickly sparked the Twitter page The American Ministry of Truth.
Who is going to decide what information is disinformation? Well, the government of course. It's an attempt to keep influence out of your mind. The UK has recently done this on acid. I don't see many Democrats condemning UK speech policies (not that they don't exist.)
Orwell wrote in his essay Politics and the English language that "meaningless words" are a tool of despots. Who is more likely to use a word twice in a sentence, and then proudly say that he or she can't define the word? I think you all know the answer to that whether or not you're willing to say it.
In Huxley's dystopia there is on family. Everybody is birthed from an artificial womb. Sex is all for pleasure and not for reproduction. In fact, when a naturally conceived child finds his father in the Brave New World, it's shown that the concept of the parent is taboo. The father is embarrassed to have a biological son.
All of the children are brought up by the state. Parents are out of the question.
Which party is more likely to refer to a woman who has a child as a "birthing person" as opposed to a "mother"?
Which party is trying to undermine the nuclear family? Which party is kicking parents out of school board meetings. Which party has made it illegal for agents of the state to inform parents if their kids are using different names and pronouns at school?
A few years ago, a Harvard-backed medical program released a video claiming that kids know that they're trans in the womb.
In Brave New World, kids are brought up in "Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Chambers."
Are you connecting the dots here?
This is all control of the mind. This is all designed around having fewer voices that don't come from government agents enter the ears of the population -- especially the kids.
We can debate any and all other issues as much as you want. Don't come at me with this, "Threat to democracy" dreck unless you acknowledge the dangers of censorship and the state's desire to deem which ideas can and cannot be expressed.
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