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Noelia Castillo Experienced Hell on Earth. We Can’t Let it Happen Again

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