[dr_lew]

While many laud George Orwell for his gripping portrayals of totalitarianism in 1984 and Animal Farm, Huxley’s Brave New World might actually have more perfectly captured the direction of civilization.

Yes, I think it runs much deeper. 1984 is more situational, it doesn't really take you out of your contemporary mindset.

BNW, OTOH, is way out there. The whole "mother" thing is amazing, and like you say, prescient.

[RobbyS]

I think we have forgotten how shattered western civilization had been by the events of the Great War. Yeats and T.S. Elliot, and of course, Lewis and Huxley give different responses, but all with a clarity of vision I don’t see in the present liberati.