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That's the thing: 1984 is North Korea, while Brave New World is the entire Western world. The latter was always scarier to me because someone will eventually r
by zeveb 10y ago
That's the thing: 1984 is North Korea, while Brave New World is the entire Western world. The latter was always scarier to me because someone will eventually rebel against a dictatorship of fear (it'll happen in NK someday), but no-one will ever defeat a dictatorship of mindless pleasure.
- rzhikharevich 10y agoI think the West is both Brave New World (consumer society) and [partially] 1984 (mass surveillance by three-letter agencies).