/lit/ - Literature

1984 and Brave New World. Here we go again.

So these two books are quite popular but i wanted to know how people actually take them in context now. Not as good books (which they are) but as looking glasses at the world of tomorrow (which is now). I don't think they were exactly meant for this as they were written more so about the society of the day but here is my question:

Huxley saw that society would be doomed by the things we love, and would ultimately be dumb down and consumed by all of it's freedom of responsibility and freedom to buy. They would become complacent and lack critical thinking to question those who rule over them.

Orwell saw a Stalinist-style controlled state that is under constant surveillance, require full government support, and ect. He did not rule out what Huxley talked about either since he had the lowest class in the book be all beer mongers and dumb fed fools.

Huxley's vision of the society and how we would function turned out to be more on the ball then Orwell in that many are dominated by consumerism and globalization instead of worrying about who got elected that there is no need for surveillance and constant control. Are we still headed in Huxley's direction, or is there still room for Orwellian vision to spring up?