In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World, sketching a future that seemed outlandish at the time but now reads like a chillingly accurate preview. He imagined a society where people are engineered rather than born, conditioned to fit neatly into a rigid caste system, and pacified by pleasure, pills, and distraction. Nearly a century later, we live with gene editing, curated digital realities, and pharmaceutical fixes for everything from sadness to boredom. We shop, swipe, and scroll through lives increasingly shaped by algorithms and corporate design. Huxley didn’t just predict a world gone sterile—he nailed how control could come wrapped in comfort. It got me wondering what Huxley would write if he were alive today.
A squat grey building of only thirty stories. Over the entrance, in blocky bronze letters, gleamed the motto of the Department of American Greatness and Spectacle: “UNITY THROUGH PROSPERITY, PROSPERITY THROUGH TRUMP.” Inside, the air was antiseptically scented with Freedom Musk™ and disinfected of all non-patriotic sentiment.
It was the year 2029. Three years had passed since the Woke Purge of 2026, that blessed and final cleansing of the American spirit. The Colleges had been razed, the libraries converted into Hot Topic megachurches, and all History reset to begin in the year 2016: Year Zero of the Eternal American Renaissance.
In the Alphas’ Indoctrination Centre, young minds clicked and whirred through the daily broadcast of The Real History of America, Vol. 7: How Trump Invented Democracy. Rows of identical adolescents—tanned, capped, and botoxed—nodded in perfect unison as the golden-faced hologram of Supreme Leader Trump explained how he had defeated Fake News and saved civilization from the poison of nuance.
“Freedom,” the hologram cooed, “means never having to think.”
At the edge of the chamber, Donny-7 stood with his hands politely folded over his MAGA-issued waistband. He was an Alpha-Plus, a high-caste Bureau of Information Harmony administrator. Cloned from the original donor DNA of Donald J.