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The only “steering” I’m doing is away from the nonsense that dystopias are intrinsically based on capitalist futures. That is all. The two biggest names in dystopia aren’t capitalist futures in any meaningful sense. (Neither are they socialist nor communist nor … they are as, to use your lovely simile, real-world as the power structures in the Potterverse.) This makes a claim that dystopias are “believable” because they are “capitalist futures” ludicrous on the face of it.
I tend to agree with you that Huxley and Orwell are both cranks. Huxley had a thing about hedonism and Orwell saw control freaks wherever he turned his head. Their novels are thus constructed around the futures they saw happening based on their hobby horses, not around what J. Random Socialist sees as “evidence” of “capitalist futures”.
The only “steering” I’m doing is away from the nonsense that dystopias are intrinsically based on capitalist futures. That is all. The two biggest names in dystopia aren’t capitalist futures in any meaningful sense. (Neither are they socialist nor communist nor … they are as, to use your lovely simile, real-world as the power structures in the Potterverse.) This makes a claim that dystopias are “believable” because they are “capitalist futures” ludicrous on the face of it.
I tend to agree with you that Huxley and Orwell are both cranks. Huxley had a thing about hedonism and Orwell saw control freaks wherever he turned his head. Their novels are thus constructed around the futures they saw happening based on their hobby horses, not around what J. Random Socialist sees as “evidence” of “capitalist futures”.