1984 is one of my favourite novels of all time. I've always been amazed that friends and acquaintances of mine view it more as "speculative" fiction, when it is a strikingly realistic, and plausible, look at what a more modern pathocracy looks like. Many of the phenomena described by Lobaczewski and experienced by anyone in a pathocratic system, are described within. For example, there is the "party", which Lobaczewski terms the "new bourgeoisie". Human emotion must be concealed, like in Lobaczewski's analogy of red and green tomatoes. There is the reverse blockade (lies told with such conviction that they confuse normal people into believing the lie). There is the war on two fronts, internal and external, and the necessity of both. The necessity, in a secular pathocracy, of outlawing certain sciences, arts, and religion. It's a book that only gets better each time I read it.
As for Huxley, I think he was a remarkable person who also had a great understanding of the real nature of evil on this planet, especially in political realms.
