Even bravery won’t help the nightmare of Brexit’s new world
by William Keegan from Economics | The Guardian on (#3C1TM)
The powerful forces driving the current nationalist upheaval also present the prospect of a future only previously imagined by Huxley or Orwell
Most readers will be familiar with Aldous Huxley's vision of a dystopian future, Brave New World. Indeed, my contemporaries and I often find ourselves observing that this or that latest invention could have come straight out of Huxley's nightmare vision.
Given the reaction against the ill-effects of globalisation by those who have been left behind - but not left out of electoral and referendum polling booths - it was a clever idea of the British economist Stephen D King to produce a book earlier this year entitled Grave New World.
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