![]() ![]() 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. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. Thanks to Justin Taylor for the link:Ĭontrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. In his Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman points out some of the differences, and argues that one of them was far closer to the reality that ensued than the other. Fundamentally, however, they offer completely different accounts of what will enslave humanity in generations to come. ![]()
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