I've been interested in huxley (brave new world) and Orwell ever since I studied them in college, both of them believed in a distopian future but they disagreed fundamentally how it would be achieved.

Where as or well thought it would be done with a stick Huxley believed a carrot.

I stumbled onto the wikipedia article today and started reading about them, amazingly Aldous Huxley was George Orwells English teacher in world war 1 and they kept in contact through out their lives but from what I can tell only one letter exists that documents their debate.

Aldous Huxley's letter to George Orwell - Oct 21, 1949

"...Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders 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 them and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World."



I wish i could of met them.

P.S sorry for the ultra nerdy topic