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Roughly what Neil Postman thought around 30 years ago then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourse

Roughly what Neil Postman thought around 30 years ago then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

code_duck 8y ago
Right, more like Brave New World than 1984, I reckon. But that's not to say either style has to be dystopic.
- slowmovintarget 8y ago
  Bruce Sterling: Distraction ...also Heavy Weather
- acct1771 8y ago
  I...have you read those books?
  - code_duck 8y ago
    You mean, regarding the dystopic aspect? Of course the societies depicted in those novels are dystopic, but I mean that it's possible to have similar systems of societal control in place without their being taken to an extreme.
    - acct1771 8y ago
      ...how do you know?