There’s a similar train of thought in both, the systems they talk about are totalitarian, but nothing like each other.īoth these hypothetical systems are meant for mass control, both are manipulative but how they do it perhaps will bring forth a tingling feeling that you perhaps are currently living in a system that is equally similar. George Orwell’s 1948 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. More importantly, if you think that you have absolute freedom or the controlling authority is perfect, then here are two books that definitely need to be on your reading list if you haven’t read them already Or that the freedom we experience is actually confined to a box, and anything that can break the controller’s power by either waking consciousness or empowering oneself, is deemed illegal. If you have at any point of time in life felt that our society is a matrix or subtly controls us in multiple ways. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.” ~ Frederick Douglass

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