By now, describing the relevance of Orwell's work is cliche. What strikes me as fascinating is how blatant Big Brother's tactics are and how sheepishly they are accepted. The routine shrugs to horror and injustice . . . Orwell's greatest prophecy is not about authoritarianism but about the human capacity to normalize just about anything. And in this way, he and Huxley agree. Fromm writes in an Afterward that incautious (or nonthinking) humans may give away their humanity to this new idea of the oligarchical collective. I would argue, too, that it is the nonthinking human who already has.