"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Compares life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today.

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…showed last 75 words of 1144 total…war or poverty, little disease or social unrest. But Huxley keeps asking, what does society have to pay for these benefits? The price, he makes clear, is high. You basically in turn sacrifice any ounce of a 'life' you can have. Everything is so perfect you cannot have fun, cannot do things different from other people to make you unique. Everyone is conditioned to make everything run smoothly, but is that really an ideal society?