"As political
and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends . . . to increase. And
the dictator . . . will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with
the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, the movies and the radio,
it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate."
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1948).
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell in 1949 stating:
"The philosophy of the ruling minority in 1984 is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and that these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World."
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1948).
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell in 1949 stating:
"The philosophy of the ruling minority in 1984 is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and that these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World."
