Little Wilson and Big Brother: Anthony Burgess's Answer to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1985

In 1949, George Orwell had suggested that the dystopian course of history was to subject the manifold to control, that order was going to get imposed upon diversity, unyielding and merciless, final order even. In 1978, Anthony Burgess answered with the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy, objectively a measure of disorder and subjectively a measure of ignorance, is endlessly bound to increase. Instead of ending in the Orwellian "Singularity" of total control, history is bound to dissipate into Chaos that defies sense and meaning.