Brave New World is here

  Taken from Letters of Aldous Huxley to  George Orwell 

   21 October 1949

Dear Mr. Orwell,

…May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals-the ultimate revolution?The 

beyond politics and economics,and which aims at the total subversion of the individual's psychology and physiology-are to be found in the Marquis de Sade,who regarded himself as the continuator,the consummator,of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. I have had occasion recently to look into the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, and have been greatly struck by the way in which, for a hundred and fifty years,the world has refused to take serious cognizance of the discoveries of Mesner,Braid,Esdaile, and the rest.Partly because of the prevailing materialism and partly because prevailing respectability,nineteenth-century philosophers and men of science were not willing to investigate the odder facts of psychology for practical men,such as politicians,soldiers and policemen,to apply in the field of government. Thanks to the voluntary ignorance of our fathers,the advent of the ultimate revolution was delayed for five or six generations. Another lucky accident was Freud's inability to hypnotize successfully and his consequent disparagement of hypnotism. This delayed the general application of hypnotism to psychiatry for at least forty years.But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis;and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates,which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.  Within the next generation i believe that the world's rulers will discover that     infant conditioning and       narco-hypnosis are more efficient,as instruments of government,than clubs and prisons,and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words,I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile,of course,there may be a large scale biological and atomic war-in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.

Thank you once again for the book.

Yours sincerely,

Aldous Huxley

The Divergent series also has a dystopian future wherein the leaders use drugs and a mind-control chip solution injection to control the populace.

V2K/RFID chips do this very thing referred to as infant conditioning/hynopeadia in the Brave New World designed to make people SLAVES. already in use in the USA criminal justice system. looks like unfortunately it will become more widespread.damn. Since, in the foster care system there is a tendency to over drug the kids with psychotropic medication to the extent that when they exit the foster care system they're worse off than when they entered it; I suspect that this is where it will get utilized next,if not already.