Eric Johnston, president of the US Chamber of Commerce and MPAA:
"We'll have no more Grapes of Wrath, we'll have no more Tobacco Roads. We'll have no more films that show the seamy side of American life. We'll have no pictures that deal with labor strikes. We'll have no pictures that deal with the banker as villain."
Yeah, I think that applies to nearly everything the neoliberal West does. Brave New World rather than 1984.*
*I haven't read either, but this is the comparison I'd seen somewhere else. Fwiw, I did read the novel that inspired them both. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Highly recommended.
1984 gets thrown around as the "harsh, totalitarian nightmare state", but I'd actually argue it's not. Only the Party members, basically the PMCs and above, live under totalitarian rule. The way that the life of the "proles" is described in 1984 is more like how people talk about BNW - endless trite distractions and petty bullshit, with the occasional random attacks to keep people confused.