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Also highly relevant is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
by kylelibra 10y ago
Also highly relevant is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
- imglorp 10y agoCame here to say this. I think what we're seeing is a mixture of the two social and political situations: some from column a and some from column b. Turns out they were both right in large measure. In fact, Huxley and Orwell were contemporary and corresponded on the matter -> http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.html http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world....
- Fricken 10y agoHighly relevant is Marshall McLuhan. 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 didn't anticipate what the internet would do to us at all in any way.
- ibmthrowaway218 10y agoBoth were influenced by _We_ by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
- liamzebedee 10y agoAn incredible book if I may add. Zamyatin was one of few dystopian writers to actually be involved in the going-ons in the Russian revolution at the time.
- megalomanu 10y agoThanks. Huxley is much more relevant than Orwell, today. 1984 is a masterpiece but describes a stalinian totalitarism, which probably belongs to the past. Today, the threat is more diffuse and hides in mass entertainment, consumerism, etc. The danger we face is the lose of our ability to think (not because of thinking would become forbidden, but because it would become unnecessary)
- earlyriser 10y agoI'd like to recommend Huxley's "Island". It isn't as relevant or famous, but it's a great book. If 1984 and BNW are "how dystopias could work", this one is "how utopias could work".