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Most express amazement at Huxley's uncanny foresight.
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.
His most uncanny disclosures came not in the obvious transcendentalism of 2001 but in The Shining --which, barring some last miracle in the forthcoming Eyes Wide Shut , ought to be his masterpiece.
What makes this history of front-office turmoil really notable is that it has been shaped, in truly uncanny fashion, by the prevailing currents of U.S. business ideology.
At least the NYT has the excuse that Canton has been an uncanny bellwether of presidential prospects in several elections.