Aldous Huxley and George Orwell are two writers who people continue to read, many decades after their deaths. Both wrote books about the future and both are considered men of letters, par excellence. Sometimes people wonder who was the correctest of the two dystopian writers. Who was a better forecaster of the future? Both wrote about a society morally ruined. And both were products of the excessive English literacy at the beginning of the last century, and, finally, both have firm and enthusiastic adherents. And this probably is true as well--they have managed to survive cancellation in our woke culture, just because they were so contrarian themselves in their own day.Who was the smartest? I think it is a contest of champions--a Joe Louis versus Sugar Ray Leonard comparison. They did differ in background. Huxley had the more priveleged upbringing. He was from the intellectual British aristocracy, while Orwell had humble beginnings. Most interestingly, Huxley taught Orwell at Ballio
