…the premise that the world is going on much as it is now, and looks into the future? I wonder if the book by Michael Young, which came out about two years ago, is the sort of thing you're thinking of? The Rise of the Meritocracy. Yes. Because if you…

…of 20, you had another test, and if your IQ had risen, you were shifted again. The whole thing was organized in that way. Now, Young kept his eyes solely on a piece of social irony. Yes. Because what he wants to do is to get the English to start…

…by Huxley and Orwell seemed so overridingly pressing upon us that one wondered... what room there was for this play by Michael Young. Yes. And surely there's the interest, too, as a man who's a professional sociologist, in a sense satirizing some of the…