Posner does lit-crit

[Rob Schaap]

>"Posner v. the Dystopians: Economics, Tendentious Readings and Satire"
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>       BY:  GEORGE ORWELL & ALDOUS HUXLEY
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>  Document:   Exclusive to LBO-Talk
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>ABSTRACT:
>  Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's novel Brave New
>  World have often been thought prophetic commentaries on
>  economic, political, and social matters. Posner argues against the
>  demonstrable applicability of these novels to issues of technology
>  and privacy, preferring rather that the novels be understood as
>  anything but pointed condemnations of his own Orwellian Piggishness
>  and Huxleyesque Controllership, for, when so viewed, Orwell's novel in
>  particular reflects a dissatisfaction with the way pigs commandeer
>  all the ideological (educational) and coercive (judicial) resources at
>  their disposal to convince or bully people into emulating Boxer right
>  up to the bit where the poor sod gets wheeled into the knacker's yard.