But wasn’t it more likely, Huxley mused, that future ruling elites would strive to keep the governed in line by distracting them with sexual allurement, entertainment, and other forms of pleasure, à la Brave New World? In many ways, today’s Chinese consumer culture is precisely the kind of palliative that Huxley described.
但是贺胥黎思考是的下面这个问题，未来的统治精英通过如《美丽新世界》描述的性诱惑、娱乐和其它形式的娱乐活动努力使得被统治者与他们保持一致，这难道不是更有可能出现的吗？中国今天的消费文化在许多方面与贺胥黎描述的缓和剂完全一样。