Went on a road trip so needed a new audiobook to listen to.  I decided to listen to Brave New World.  I haven’t read it since high school so I felt I should do it again.

Holy shit!

There is so much of that book that I forgot.

The one thing that Orwell got wrong in 1984 was sex.  Huxley got sex alarmingly right.

“Exquisite little creature!” said the Director, looking after her. Then, turning to his students, “What I’m going to tell you now,” he said, “may sound incredible. But then, when you’re not accustomed to history, most facts about the past do sound incredible.”
He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.
A look of astonished incredulity appeared on the faces of his listeners. Poor little kids not allowed to amuse themselves? They could not believe it.
“Even adolescents,” the D.H.C. was saying, “even adolescents like yourselves …”
“Not possible!”
“Barring a little surreptitious auto-erotism and homosexuality–absolutely nothing.”
“Nothing?”
“In most cases, till they were over twenty years old.”
“Twenty years old?” echoed the students in a chorus of loud disbelief.
“Twenty,” the Director repeated. “I told you that you’d find it incredible.”
“But what happened?” they asked. “What were the results?”
“The results were terrible.

Remember earlier this year when the Left decided to back Netflix showing French of core child porn to the hilt?  

Sex in the world of Aldous Huxley is so casual that not being promiscuous is a cultural aberration, and girls are valued for being “pneumatic,” i.e., so easy that sex with them was automatic and mechanical, as in a servo-pneumatic.

Now we have a US Congresswoman advocating that girls turn 18 and set up an OnlyFans account to make porn because “sex work is work.”

If you took Huxley’s thoughts on sex and narcotics and combined them with Orwell’s oppressive, invasive police state and thoughtcrimes, you’d get 2020.