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What you're describing is an Orwellian dystopia, where a boot forces you to think a certain way. We live in a Huxleyan dystopia where there is so much so much t
by SCUSKU 1y ago
What you're describing is an Orwellian dystopia, where a boot forces you to think a certain way. We live in a Huxleyan dystopia where there is so much so much to distract you that you become submissive.
- galangalalgol 1y agoThe demographic collapse will likely lead to artificial wombs and llm powered vulcan style teaching pits crossed with diamond age primers. Huxley was more prescient than I thought when teading brave new world. I think the nation that has its primers teach the vat-made labor force rhetoric, logic and critical thinking will have lower gdp, but higher stability.
- amy_petrik 1y agoI disagree, this is neither an Orwellian nor an Huxelian dystopia, but a Gibsonian AI megacorp dystopia
- germinalphrase 1y agoRead “The Island” for a different flavor of Huxley.
- chrisweekly 1y agoYes, this, precisely. Our increasingly dystopian present features a fair amount of Big Brother, but Brave New World's soma is what drives and enables it, along w/ aspects of Gilliam's "Brazil".... There is also so much that's womderful and amazing and positive. No light w/out darkness, "no mud, no lotus", etc. -- which IMHO it's increasingly important to focus on, deliberately.
- sussmannbaka 1y agoThis would be nice, however we get both the boot AND the flood of information.