Episode Details

Just in time for Election Day, we’ve begun our new series: Dystopian Doom. That means we should start with the two most infamous dystopian novels ever made. You’ve heard of them and may have already read them—Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). What are their differences? Which villain is worse, the flippant Mustapha Mond or the torture of Big Brother? And, of course, which one of these dystopian dooms are we more likely to confront today?

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Quotes and notes

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Concession stand

• If you’re listening in the U.S. on release date, “happy” Election Day!
• If you’re listening weeks afterward, we’re still counting votes. This is fine.
• Like any Dystopian Doom episode, we avoid specific parties/policies.
• But these issues of basic humanity are supra-political, beyond politics.
• They’re far more about how we recognize and organize moral realities.
• Please note that neither Huxley or Orwell was a professing Christia