Brave New World", "1984" & "The Trial" Predicted Present-Day America

by max blunt at 02:50PM (CET) on March 14, 2007

Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial, published in 1925 and George Orwell's novel, 1984, published in 1949,
read like contemporay commentaries on the practices of the Bush Regime In Orwell's 1984, people are

subjected to relentless spying A state or alleged state of war is used to maintain total control over everyone Lies have replaced truth,and the media serves as propagandist for the Ministry of Truth:

John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review.

In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news.

Huxley's fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early:

In vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and disappointment.

Alas, Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial, published in 1925 and George Orwell's novel, 1984, published in 1949, also have been turned into period pieces by the practices of the Bush Regime.

In Kafka's novel, Josef K. is arrested for reasons never given, tried for an unspecified crime, and executed. LINK