1984

Apple's Famous 1984 ad

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[haistapaska20]

Orwell was an optimist

[McDollaz]

if the world ever got to this point i would just kill myself

[jamestargetedindiv]

Closely listen to a Pre-Januarye 8th of Inception, particularly around, "Do It."

[sonikbizoom]

@McDollaz hey, its been 3 years sense your comment. you still alive?

[Banned4Life]

@cater94

I did not claim the comparison as my own as I am not the media theorist and cultural critic named Neil Postman. His word bears more weigh than mine, I'm sure. I have only read both books; what I haven't done is devote my life to the topic.

So where's the counterargument in that?

[cater94]

@Banned4Life

if you go to wikipedia and look up brave new world, and go to the section called 'Comparisons with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four', there's a paragragh exactly like the one you just wrote. weird eh?

[Banned4Life]

@cater94 In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

[Banned4Life]

@cater94 Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."

[Banned4Life]

@cater94 Not if you bother to ACTUALLY look around.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

[cater94]

@Banned4Life

he made a very good fucking point that holds true today