I read a book called Brave New World because I'm a nerdy little dweeb, and it's a classic. It's by a British guy, written in about the 30s I guess. It's about the future.
It takes place in A.F. 662, which stands for After Ford. As in, the guy who made the Model T. He's their god. They praise him and instead of crossing themselves like good little catholics, trace T's on their stomachs. They said "Thank Ford" and stuff. They think he's smart not only because of those interchangeable parts, but also because they think he and Freud are the same guy, and he just calls himself Freud when he writes.
They live in a 5 caste system, and they condition people to like to be in their caste. There are no mothers or fathers, everyone is born into a bottle from an egg on a table, and in that bottle they travel down a very slowly moving conveyor belt where, according to what you are destined to become, they inject stuff into you. They put poison into the bottles of the lower castes to stunt their growth and make them stupid. They put diffent vaccines in different bottles for your soon to be job. The coal miners won't get black lung and the airplane pilots won't get air sick. All of the lower castes are clones of each other, and it works so that one entire wing of the hospital is run by one set of brothers, and a certain factory is run by one set of sisters. The upper castes aren't cloned because it might weaken them.
No one reads or has any kind of solitary enjoyment. They promote sexuality, especially from a very young age. "Everyone belongs to everyone." It's frowned upon to keep one partner for more than a few weeks, and within that time you shouldn't have just one companion. They take place in religious orgys at least once every other week that are required. They chew special gum to make them horny. There is no such thing as discomfort, because they perfected a drug that you can take as soon as you start to feel unhappy that's an instant upper. In large doses it's like going on a weekend vacation.
There's a plot too, but I already wrote enough about the background. That's all you need to know about the book really, to compare it to real life. In the book, the 10 world controllers' jobs were to preserve uninformity within society, so that no person stood out. People had predestined jobs. Sexual immorality was good. God was not allowed. Drugs were rampant. Everyone is forced to not think and to not read and to not have any sort of solitary time. That, my friends, is a scary place.
