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That is a splendidly-written comparison of Huxley’s vision with our present-day world. I don’t know Kyle Smith, but I will keep an eye out for him now. Huxley’s book is extraordinarily prescient, and Smith relates these parallels convincingly.

omg what are you kyle's mom pretending not to be?

It was readable, but "splendid?" Chesterton was "splendid." This is 8th grade essay stuff.

Huxley also foresaw a disturbing partnership between the state and capitalism but didn’t anticipate how little need for government collusion sophisticated marketers would need to reorder society.
And again: The cycle of challenges confronted and mastered, the flow of meaningful work, has largely been taken away from Huxley’s world citizens.

Not only is the syntax here well above 8th grade, the ideas indeed are.

I like your reading list on your personal page. Intrepid and Orthodoxy make any list worth taking note of. And yes, splendid is a word that Chesterton would use either satirically or in reference to something outstanding, such as an essay by Newman. Perhaps I was watering it down by using it here, in comparison with Newman, or Chesterton himself. But then again, I never claimed that Smith soared aloft with those superlative writers, did I?

Pretending to be Smith's mother? Are you serious about that accusation, even if lodged hyperbolically? I stand by my contention that it was a laudable essay, and to my mind covered major points in Huxley's book accurately.

I am more interested in your response. I am fascinated by someone who cites Chesterton and "omg" in the same response. You would seem to be of a supercilious nature, and if I am wrong, I apologize in advance. Maybe you just had your 5th Manhattan. Been there myself.