The Vision
Cleaning my computer room I came across a printed page tucked among many others….
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 information 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.
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture… As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distraction.”
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So where are we now in 2008?
From the 1976 movie Network - over 30 years ago.
1984 or Brave New World?
It’s ok. You don’t have to answer. Who can respond to insanity?