Something for all to consider

I read this fifty odd years ago. It serves more as a warning than a prediction - as yet, we are a long way from having entire societies blissed-out on officially-sanctioned drug rations! That being said, however, I could pick up elements of what Huxley was talking about already in Seventies Britain - the throwaway society was already upon us, with postwar austerity unknown to young people and a fading memory for others. His prediction of sexual freedom was also coming to pass, although in a limited way when you compare it to what happened in the book. In comparison with Orwell's nineteen-eighty-four, which I read at around the same time, I thought it (Huxley's work) was more relevant. I think I was wrong on that one. What Orwell predicted - or warned about - hadn't happened in 1970-whenever. Because the technology hadn't got there. It has now.