[HN Gopher] George Orwell Outside the Whale
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       George Orwell Outside the Whale
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-12-12 02:14 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | mitchbob wrote:
       | Archived: https://archive.ph/xbHlY
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | My favorite interaction of Orwell with another writer is that
       | with Aldous Huxley. Aldous Huxley wrote this in a letter to
       | Orwell in 1949:
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       | 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. In other words, I feel that the
       | nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into
       | the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I
       | imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as
       | a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of
       | course, there may be a large-scale biological and atomic war --
       | in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely
       | imaginable kinds.
        
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