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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

7 Responses to “Orwell vs Huxley: 1984 vs Brave New World”

1. super_trooper Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 1:47 pm

   Or we can return to 1984 and Niel Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” speech in Frankfurt

   http://www.byui.edu/onlinelearning/courses/hum/202/Neil_Postman.htm

2. ZackAttack Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 2:19 pm

   Yes, but Twitter is voluntary Newspeak.

   Now, we pay to have the telescreen (Kinect) installed in our living rooms.

3. ducati_jackson Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 3:57 pm

   I like that this infographic points out that the middle east/far east are more Orwellian while the west is more Huxleyan (?) in nature. One wonders if the differences are cause more by technological or cultural disparity.

   See also:
   http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html

4. bobbyd Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 4:31 pm

   The fact that you’re showing an infographic for this post is Orwellian. Orwell espoused the view that the limiting of words, narrows consciousness. Tidy infographic misses the nuances of the thematic within crisis capitalism. Or in newspeak, capitalism big plus, that is privatizing of profits for the 1%, socializing of risk for the 99%.

   It’s also why ourmass media has converged to infantalizing all of us. Because it is in a teenage anxious state, which we are most ready to consume ad infinitum.

5. bobbyd Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 4:32 pm

   “The people will not rebel unless they are conscious. Only after they are conscious will they rebel” -Orwell.

6. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 5:20 pm

   http://i.imgur.com/rrxW1.png

   the “v.” stance should be considered..

   Why are We sosure that it isn’t ‘Both’? or, ‘Both/and’?

   past that, some things should be re-Read..

   “The fact that you’re showing an infographic for this post is Orwellian. Orwell espoused the view that the limiting of words, narrows consciousness. Tidy infographic misses the nuances of the thematic within…”

   “… also why our mass media has converged to infantilization all of us. Because it is in a teenage anxious state, which we are most ready to consume ad infinitum.”

   “… Orwell espoused the view that the limiting of words, narrows consciousness…”
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/infantilization

   “The people will not rebel unless they are conscious. Only after they are conscious will they rebel” -Orwell.

7. adamsdc Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 10:12 pm

   When someone cites Time magazine as a credible source of information vs. TMZ, a celebrity porn cite, my shields go up. my vote is for Huxley/Orwell, who really had more in common than not. They both identified stupidity and human gullibiltiy, which is how O’Bama got elected.