In his notorious novel “1984,” British author George Orwell envisioned a future where mass surveillance, censorship, and historical revisionism, backed in the end by brutal torture, would repress personality and individuality and enforce ideological and even psychological conformity. Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” anticipated a late 21st century dominated by unrestricted capitalism, in which there was no need for censorship because materialist pleasures inundated the senses to such an extent that curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge were drowned. While both novels (especially Orwell’s) are often invoked by both the Left and Right in critiques of politicians and institutions that one side or the other dislikes, neither author quite accurately — or, rather, quite fully — foresaw the evils which have come to dominate the modern age.
Two other authors, however, evinced a much higher degree of prescience. Robert Hugh Benson, an English Catholic priest, in his apocalyptic 1907 novel “Lord of the World,” prophesied and dreaded the mass persecution of Christians, who largely became second-class citizens, and the widespread normalization and state sponsorship of abortion and euthanasia. The French Catholic and adventurer Jean Raspail, in his controversial “The Camp of the Saints,” asked how Europe might respond to a mass invasion-by-immigration launched by the Third World, anticipating that such an invasion would, like the barbarian hordes of old, bring with it wholesale rape, looting, and even murder, all fueled and tolerated by the suicidal empathy and shameful self-loathing of the Western world.
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