"1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual"

[Joe]

Just another b.s. book off the 11th grade reading list. Mr. Orwell should have tried writing something when he was not tripping.
Big Brother does not have enough people fluent in Arabic and Farsi to catch the really scary mofos.
Us? Let's not flatter ourselves. We're so far down the food chain we count for nothing. All they're trying to get from us is an advertising database that appeals to our purchase history.

I just read a biography of Huxley. He was a 'faddist.' He tended to gravitate to whatever new idea was floating around at the time as the end-all-be-all answer to the mysteries of the universe. The whole Bloomsbury crowd spent an inordinate amount of time cheating on their respective wives and husbands and then writing thinly veiled compositions about themselves to further their egos.