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I've often thought a blend of Huxley and Bradbury is where we're at now, at least in the West. People just want to live, with as little worry about their basic
by sidlls 5y ago
I've often thought a blend of Huxley and Bradbury is where we're at now, at least in the West.
People just want to live, with as little worry about their basic needs as possible. They don't much care how they get it, either. And that's why the ideas in all these three books are so easily carried out in reality.
- z3c0 5y agoI think peoples' willingness to be subjugated makes it easier to see the parallels between Huxley and Bradbury's worlds and our own, but I don't think they nailed the "Post-Truth" ethos quite as well as 1984 did. It appears that Orwell tragically overestimated people and assumed that it would require methodical violence to make his world a reality.
- tharne 5y ago>...but I don't think they nailed the "Post-Truth" ethos quite as well as 1984 did. 100%. What 1984 really nails is the use of the control of language and history to create a new reality that they have near 100% dominance over.
- Ekaros 5y agoAlso the parallels between Trump, deplorables, right, far-right, etc. and two minutes of hate is quite scary... Just that it extends over much longer period...
- trasz 5y ago"Now"? How is it different from the West in the past, from McCarthy to Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
- micromacrofoot 5y ago> People just want to live, with as little worry about their basic needs as possible. You can describe most of recorded history this way