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Nobody's forcing you to watch Netflix (or use Kinect, Facebook, etc) at gunpoint. If anything the trend of tracking/surveillance with consent is Huxleyish rath
by nandemo 11y ago
Nobody's forcing you to watch Netflix (or use Kinect, Facebook, etc) at gunpoint.
If anything the trend of tracking/surveillance with consent is Huxleyish rather than Orwellian.
- gkop 11y agoIt's probably hopeless generally, but thought you might like to know that Huxley himself rejected BNW later in life and offered a new take on things in Island. So it's not really fair to the author to use Huxleyish as a synonym for BNWish. Sorry I don't have a cite, read this in a biography of Huxley that had a cite. The wiki page for Island hints in this direction though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)