Newspeak

British literature of 19th and 20th century is probably the most enlightened and authentic literature and probably the least oppressed literature due to obvious reasons. There are hints of what would become of the world in that literature and if you pay attention you'd get the hints. I love Conan Doyle, and his life is interesting, he wrote probably and arguably the most logical character in literature and in his own life he ultimately ended up chasing paranormal and attending seances in order to talk to the dead. The writer I was most influenced with during my youth was not British, but he was European and his name is Franz Kafka. His works document invisible political or bureaucratic powers that influence the lives of everyman. It is much later in life that I understood the true meaning of Kafka's work, and yet there are a few things left wanting in my understanding of his work and these few things are the most crucial in understanding the world as it is today. George Orwell is a hero, and one realises it ultimately in one's life as the least a good man can do is give a heads up to the posterity and he did the same, and same was done by Aldous Huxley. Does the "Brave New World" of Huxley's imagination exist? Well as far as I know and I have experienced it, it does. Think of it as a heaven, below which the actual tierd existence starts. The existence in this world is like a permanent experience of neuropsychological airconditioning, and continued experience of pleasure, think of it as being intoxicated continuosly but without the side-effects. For the rest of the existence it's the world of George Orwell. As far as Conan Doyle's inclination with occult goes, as far as I have experienced, occult or supernatural too favours those who are powerful, and practically power more often than not is acquired by deceit. This is not to say democratic power or genuine benevolent power can't exist. It can, but it unfortunately doesn't and hasn't since a very long time, in India at least since the British times. I have witnessed glimpses of different worlds, but to tell you the truth, all of it is political, what I was seeking was spiritual and I finally realised that the real spiritual only resides within you and in your faith. We are living in times when people have been made into islands drifting apart from each other, suffering with loneliness and misunderstanding and there is no cure to this because it is all political and intentional, like Kafka felt, like Orwell felt. And the Big Brother doesn't watch you from your television screens, he watches you with your own eyes.