What Orwell and Huxley Got Wrong and Kafka Got Right
What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional.
For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley resonate as maps to the present distemper. Orwell's account of full-spectrum technological totalitarianism maps Big Tech's mastery of Surveillance Capitalism and governments' full-spectrum surveillance powering the fine-grained coercion of social credit scores and related tools.
Huxley'…
