If you read dystopian novels from the first half of the twentieth century, the two most likely to end up on your bookshelf are Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In these books, society is assuredly on the road to ruin, but the methodology along the way could hardly be more different. Stuart McMillen, blogging at HighExistence, presents us with a short series of cartoons exploring the question of which novelist nailed the future. It's an interesting, thought-provoking question, and a significant one for those of us experiencing the evolution of the great experiment called the United States of America.
Hat tip goes to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.
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