Huxley, Orwell, Bradbury. Who was right?

That's all I ask.

ask something else

>which book correctly predicted the future
that's not really a literary question now is it

Is BNW worth reading? I've read the other two but I don't know about that one.

its alright, just like 200 pages. wont take long

How come I can't find that boxset?

all three
brave new world came true in 1979, 80, 81
1984 became true in 2001
fahrenheit 451 in 2016

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p much this OP
they were correct in their projections on certain parts of the collective consciousness and the human psyche that they all took issue with .

huxley was right that we are vulnerable because we actively pursue comfort and pleasure, and we would sacrifice many things to get them

orwell was right in that violence and conformity are the end goals of the state.

bradberry was right on how important information is to freeing the human mind as well as controlling it.

but like a true /litizen/ I have only read huxley
and now that I've said that
someone is going to say I missed the mark with all three of them especially Huxley

They were all right, you dingus.

Bradbury nailed the anti-intellectual, anti-literacy trend but did not elaborate on the machinery that would launch it forward. (Iphones, Twitter, Insta, etc.)

Orwell understood very well that government would only increase the use of propaganda as technology allowed. Two Minutes Hate is a real thing, and it lasts all day on the cable news networks.

Huxley cannot be questioned by any American. The healthcare and pharmaceutical industries are fully ONE SIXTH of our economy. Media consumers are continually offered drugs, cosmetics, and elective operations on television, print, and online.

We will all be in a very sad state within our lifetimes.

Brave New World was shit.

It's wrong to evaluate literature based on its prophetic qualities.

but isn't literary quality of a work based on its correspondence to reality?

no, you ignorant slut

I liked it in highschool, but I think I skimmed it recently and the prose was flowery af

>"A few have become acquainted with Orwell’s 1984; because it is both difficult to obtain and dangerous to possess, it is known only to certain members of the Inner Party. Orwell fascinates them through his insight into details they know well, and through his use of Swiftian satire. Such a form of writing is forbidden by the New Faith because allegory, by nature manifold in meaning, would trespass beyond the prescriptions of socialist realism and the demands of the censor. Even those who know Orwell only by hearsay are amazed that a writer who never lived in Russia should have so keen a perception into its life." - Czeslaw Milosz

You should read it due to its cultural relevance, but I remember it as being the least enjoyable of the 3 in regards to the actual reading experience.

It wasn't supposed to be a documentary

Huxley is closest to the truth, but neither of them are right because society will crumble before our designs come to fruition.

>Huxley is closest to the truth
1984 is literally North Korea

but north korea is a hoax

Russell Brand, is that you?

You tell me.

Jesus fucking christ it's not a 1000 pages book. Read it and found out. What the fuck is your problem?

You mad xD

I've never read F451 and I should reread 1984 and BNW.

From what I can recall I though 1984 was better written and better as a novel, while BNW is more interesting and prescient.

unironically this or a Brave New World-1984 combo.

Fahrenheit 451 is just about Old Ray hating tv

neither, and all of them

>/thread

fucking kek

All of them. A little of each predicts our globalist clown world.

Never read 451 but Bradbury was plagued by the scientific ignorance and illiteracy of his time. He's far from prophetic.

We live in a sort of quasi-1984 Big Brother society where people are still nominally free, but slaves to their hedonistic desires a la Brave New World.

Fahrenheit 451 is probably my least favourite, but I absolutely love that scene when Guy starts reading poetry to his wife's friends and they start freaking out and crying and run away in terror.

By actually buying these books, you unironically proving that they're all right.

I thought it was great. I'm a sucker for dystopian stuff though.