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We are “Amusing Ourselves to Death”.
by stevenwoo 3mo ago
We are “Amusing Ourselves to Death”.
- Barbing 3mo agoIn the introduction to Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death Thanks for the reminder to read this.
- OccamsMirror 3mo ago¿Por qué no los dos?
- Barbing 3mo agoRemoved that line just before commenting :)
- amelius 3mo agoIt's incidentally one of the explanations for the Fermi paradox. "Alien species may isolate themselves in virtual worlds" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_explanations_for_the_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...