Who's dystopic future are we living in, at present?

[Writer]

Aldous Huxley's or George Orwell's?

Or both?

And why?

[Kutjara]

1. Hieronymus Bosch's n/t

[Writer]

2. The artist?

[Kutjara]

5. Yes. A dystopian hell of twisted intentions and...

...mangled lives, presided over by a goat with a crown.

[GOPisEvil]

3. I think we're living Machiavelli's wet dream.

That or a combination of Huxley, Orwell and Joseph Heller.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

(hey - I just noticed Tom Stoppard was a co-writer. Well , that explains the quality even more).

Admittedly, he didn't have to look so far ahead. But he has the combination of propaganda, torture, consumerism and madness down just right.

[swag]

17. Good call.

Except they have cooler looking desktop computers in "Brazil."

[triguy46]

6. "Eurasia is our ally." Sounds like * trying to sell us another war.

[baldguy]

7. Soylent Green

All that's missing is the cannibalizing of the surplus population.

[mitchum]

8. "Brave New World" became "1984" a few years ago

[philosophie_en_rose]

9. A mix.

1984 with a dash of Jennifer Government and a thump of Handmaid's Tale.

[Orrex]

10. Adam Smith's

And he can keep his famous invisible hand to himself, thankyouverymuch!

[rockymountaindem]

11. You should check out his wikiquote page

He's not the ubercapitalist people think he is. As his writings reveal, he wasn't under the illusion that big business is always benign and a force for good.

[Orrex]

13. Yeah, but that's less hysterically funny then my uberclever post

Kindly keep your facts to yourself, please; I'm crafting bon mots here!

[rockymountaindem]

14. Sorry

I'll join you:

May we consign his rubbish to the dustbin of history, that haggis-eating exploiter!!!

:)

[datasuspect]

18. the current model of capitalism we are subjected to is straight up usury

making money from money and creating nothing of actual value in the process.

we call speculators "investors" and it is supposed to lend credence to the whole sham.

i think adam smith (and it's been years since i read wealth of nations) proposed a market whereby the issue of markets would have ostensible tangible results for the greatest number of people. as opposed to the generation of money, which is inherently different than wealth. money, of itself, is practically meaningless.

i might be mistaken though.

[datasuspect]

19. oopsie daisy

wrong spot

[Redstone]

12. "Whose," not "Who's." I'm a bit disappointed; I thought you'd know that.

Redstone

[Writer]

15. Don't type pissed. That's my new rule.

It's a farkin' typo.

[PVnRT]

16. None

If we were actually in one of those writers' dystopias, we'd have all been executed for posting here.

[datasuspect]

20. we might be approximating variations of any number of philip k. dickian dystopias

possibly

[flvegan]

21. Jim Henson's

I mean, c'mon, obviously this was a premonition of Condi, W and Cheney:

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. We're living in the logical exponentiation of capitalism.

Greed made manifest. With Carlyle bidding for Virgin's phone network, George Bush would be able to listen to your phone calls anytime he wants.

A teacher once said that we are seeing the struggle between those who want to run the world, and those who want to merely live in it.

[Writer]

23. Has anyone in here considered the role of pharmaceuticals in our society today?

There seems to be a pill for everything. Our Soma.