From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 23:08:09 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> The British are always quick to see Dystopian Futures wherever they get the
> chance. Look at Anthiny Burgess A Clockwork Orange, or Huxley's Brave New
> World, or Orwell's 1984, or even H.G. Well's visions-mostly grim ones. Is
> this commision warning the public of what may occur if technology is applied
> by totalitarians, or is it considered desirable by the commission? Ugly
> things will happen as long as the human condition remains what it is. But
> there is hope, that humans, especially ones with traditions of more freedom
> will undermine the attempts of the dictatorships.
Does the British predeliction toward dystopian writing reflect on their vision,
or just on the quality of life in Britain? I know, for example, that Orwell had
said that 1984 would not have been anywhere as gloomy and pessimistic if he were
not dying of TB when he wrote it...
Mike
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