[GeronL]

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience

Huxley was right on the money

[khelus]

... Huxley was right on the money

Huxley was describing The Frankfurt School and Gramsci's cultural marxism which has been extraordinarily successful.

Orwell's Brave New World treatment is reserved for those who resist. Huxley and Orwells visions are sort of a good cop / bad cop duo.

Both men were prescient.