In a message dated 9/1/00 10:02:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
retroman@turbont.net writes:
<< Does the British predeliction toward dystopian writing reflect on their
vision,
or just on the quality of life in Britain? I know, for example, that Orwell
had
said that 1984 would not have been anywhere as gloomy and pessimistic if he
were
not dying of TB when he wrote it...
Mike >>
Excellent point! That was also brought forth by physicist, Gerard O'neil in
his work, 2081. That Huxley in his depeiction of 26th century life reflected
on his own views of classist, Britian, and Well's own personal gloom,
reflecting his own declining health and depression; also the loss of empire.
I think Britian woke up from Empire when the Labor Party realized that all
the goodies brought forth from owning India or Africa, seemed to go into the
pockets of the rich and they (the rich) could not keep Britain out of two
wars with Germany.
My mental image of G.B. (however inaccurate) seems to be that after WW2, they
all 'went to pub'. My suspicion is that Gen-X is a lot happier with their
lives then the boomers are or the fading WW2 generation ever was. I also
believe that despite today's genuine stupidities in the USA, that we also,
are ever so slightly smarter then the schmucks who ran the USA post WW1,
permitting a farm depression, the Weimar Republic, the hyperinflation, and
the Great Depression, and the rise of Adork.
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