Here is the smackdown between Orwell and Huxley . . . between Nineteen Eighty-Four vs Brave New World.
I think Huxley got the better of Orwell!
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Source:
Orwell vs Huxley
Lapham’s Quarterly
Category: Books
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
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
Yes, but Twitter is voluntary Newspeak.
Now, we pay to have the telescreen (Kinect) installed in our living rooms.
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
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.
“The people will not rebel unless they are conscious. Only after they are conscious will they rebel” -Orwell.
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.
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.