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. Rather, Huxley argues that hypnosis and drugs will solve the problem of creating an subservient public: Huxley praises Orwell’s book, but argues that government will not need to use such forceful means (“boot-on-the-face”) to maintain order. Today’s offering is a letter from Aldous Huxley to George Orwell following the publication of 1984. Letters of Note is a fantastic blog that posts fascinating, inspiring and sometimes frightening bits of correspondence, often between famous writers.
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