« Reply #207 on: Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:11:25 »
I am currently reading 1984 for my own personal gains. Great book so far. It is a part of a personal trilogy of books that I am reading: Slaughterhouse-Five, 1984, and Catch-22.
There is no number in the title, but always felt that "Brave New World" should be read along with 1984. They present 2 different faces of an unpleasant coin.

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“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison, Federalist 47
“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48