Well, I see our current world as already being partly a hell inspired by Gorge Orwell's "1984" - sadly, Communism is alive and well, despite claims - and a potential future dystopic hell being likely very similiar to E M Forster's story "The Machine Stops". My view of a wonderful future Utopia would be something like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" or Bruce Sterling's cyberpunk era in "Schismatrix".
"Hug me till you drug me, honey,
Kiss me till I'm in a coma,
Hug me honey, snuggly bunny!
Love's as good as Soma!"
Poem from that wonderful book "Brave New World".
I was awakened by some of what Aldous Huxley had written, I was 14 when I read Brave New world and was amazed at how in 1930 this man could have envisioned the things he had. In my teens I read most of his essays and novels, and I believe he was visionary in many respects, although he was nearly blind physically.
I urge anyone who wants to see a truly inspiring vision of utopia should read his novel "Island" Its by far the best utopia work of fiction I have read, It seems so possible and attainable and sustainable, and yet in the end the Island is besieged by oil hungry despots. Even he knew that no paradise can last.
He predicted
Universal drugging of the population. They don't have soma yet, but I am sure its still being worked on.
He explained how the language would be dumbed down and through rigorous conditioning the people would learn to love their servitude.
He forsaw how culture could be synthetically created and force fed to the public. This is happening , every time I here the latest techno trance whore music, it makes me think of that poem posted by Tyler. There are hit factories, that establish certain trends in the new music that is being fed to the young. Its not just junkfood for the masses, there are actual messages being put in and being pavlovianly hammered into the brains of our young.
There must be others who see that the new synthetic pop music is scientifically designed to make the youth shallow and ignorant. The subliminal messages are everywhere.
He predicted
Genetic engineering and mass culling of the population through chemical means.
Birth control
The Establishment of World government
The lacing of our food with hormones(sex hormone chewing gum).
I also read Orwell and believe that both George and Aldous were insiders of the Fabian conspiracy and they knew, Damn well what was being set up by the Money Men. The future is never written in stone, but I believe that the same society's of social planers are as strong and intact as ever. Aldous said it would be 600 years before a society like the Brave new world could arise, and then 30 years later he revised his estimates based on the explosion of progress that had happened in his own lifetime. It could happen much sooner.
I even named my Son Aldous, in the spirit of his curiosity and lifetime dedication to learning. (90 percent of people have no Idea who Aldous Huxley was and so have no clue about the origin of my sons name). Many of his predictions have come to pass. Most people of this generation will never learn to read such high brow literature and will never be able to understand what these people were trying to teach us.
