TWO of the best-known dystopian novels are probably George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. But there is another which may have slipped below many people’s radar. This is the 1972 Fugue for a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest.
WHAT makes a healthy, functioning and cohesive society? I think it’s one where the following factors are present:
the state prioritises people who are from that state, whose families have contributed to that state, when distributing scarce goods such as social housing;
people who rely on the state, in turn, actively contribute to that state by working and paying tax so that others can benefit from the same support;
people identify with the main identities of that state, such as feeling British or English;
and people can speak the main language in that state.
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