Surprise!

I didn't take such books as science fiction, but more as a prophetic warning. I hoped I wouldn't see it in my lifetime though.

instead of a satire.

BRAWNDO It's what plants crave!

The people in that world may have been conditioned in what substituted for in utero, and they may have been systematically drugged, but they weren't miserable - they were mostly happy - the protagonist stood out because he wasn't, and many blieved somthinghas gone wrong with his pre-natal chemicals. No dictator in real life will ever enforce a system which tries to make everyone happy. For one thing, it costs too much. For another, those who have an authoritarian temperament, whether leaders or followers, cannot be happy unless someone else is miserable.

In 2024.

Stereotypical malcontent.

Just like Idiocracy.

The only mistake in that movie was that it took 500 years.

Where everyone lives in a dictatorship run by corporations.

People are required to buy products heavily advertised, that simply don't work.
Or they work erratically.

But, every one will be required to have one, like Mao Zedong's little red book, only this one will have trumps quotas.

Same for us proles.

May the G.O.P.'s Boastful Billionaire Bros toss us a crumb every decade or so.

in the future.

who said at the bottom:

"I believe that both Huxley and Orwell were right."

You could find evidence for every one of their points about both author's work.