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Y’all should read “Amusing ourselves to death” by Neil Postman if you’re interested in how mediums have changed over the years. As Huxley hinted, our soma is j
by thenerdhead 4y ago
Y’all should read “Amusing ourselves to death” by Neil Postman if you’re interested in how mediums have changed over the years.
As Huxley hinted, our soma is just technological narcotics. With each new medium of technology brings in a plethora of problems that cannot be reformed.
- LesZedCB 4y agoyes! thank you. huxley was right about a scary number of things... this debate between will self and adam gopnik on 'brave new world' vs '1984' is really good if anybody has 1.5 hours to indulge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw just grabbed 'amusing ourselves to death' from libby, thanks for the recommendation!
- thenerdhead 4y agoperhaps that video was inspired by postman's famous comparison. here's the comic form: https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webcomic-2/ https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...
- dgfitz 4y agoHuxley + Rand sure seem to have shared the same crystal ball.