dystopia
- Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment https://t.co/XOXN8zSC6u
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books,” Neil Postman wrote: 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
... See morefrom Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
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1984
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- There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first, the Orwellian culture becomes a prison. In the second, the Huxleyan culture becomes a burlesque.
- What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countena
from Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
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The Rise and Fall of The Witcher (Essay & Deep Dive)
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“The Witcher originated in an Orwellian society and now finds itself in a Huxleyan one.”
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