Thread:Mott2020/@comment-44123106-20191227170431/@comment-38946466-20191228131929

1984 was good and perhaps it is happening a bit.

The book that is often overlooked and I feel we are now living in its dystopian vision is Brave New World (also thanks to FB).

There is a very memorable review about these 2 books and managed to find it after a bit of googling: 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. 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. ... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.