"Contrary to popular belief even among cultured people, the prophecies of Huxley and Orwell are very different from each other."
Orwell warns us of the risk of being crushed by an external oppressive force.
Huxley, in his view, does not need a Big Brother to explain that people will be stripped of their autonomy, maturity, history. He knows that people will come to love their oppression, to worship technology that destroys their ability to think.

Orwell feared those who would ban books.
Huxley feared there wouldn't even be a need to ban books anymore, because no one would want to read them anymore.

Orwell feared those who would deny us our information.
Huxley feared that we would be so short of it that we would be reduced to passivity and selfishness.

Orwell was afraid the truth would be kept from us.
Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in an ocean of nonsense.

Orwell feared that our culture would be imprisoned.
Huxley was worried that our culture would become trivial, only concerned with fairies. For, as Huxley pointed out in "Brave New World Revisited," defenders of liberty and reason, who are always on alert in defiance of tyranny, "take no account of man's near insatiable appetite for freedom." and distractions". In "1984," Huxley added, control over people is exercised by punishing them; in "The Best of the Worlds," he is exercising them by inflicting pleasure.

In a nutshell,
Orwell feared that what we hate would destroy us; Huxley feared that this destruction would come to us rather than what we love. "

~ N. Postman, Distracting to death

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