I conducted this debate this semester with my students. Half the class read Huxley, the other half Orwell, and little teams went on to research 21st manifestations of what either author warned us could happen.
No competition, they found both the dystopia and counter-utopia to be equally foreboding!
I had to read both back-to-back in school, and it ended up diluting the message of Brave New World for me at the time because it didn't seem all that horrible compared to 1984, which PROFOUNDLY upset me unlike any fiction before or since.
1984 and Brave New World are the 2 dystopias that most ppl turn to in order to explain our current time but I think we need to start adding Neuromancer to that list, what with Big Tech on the verge of taking over everything.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the number of stupid individuals in circulation, as well as the extent of harm they're capable of. Paraphrased from Cipolla's Laws of human stupidity
I mean he did tend to insult the working class a lot actually. It is why his works are primarily projecting capitalism’s failings on Marxism. He was a snitch and a CIA asset
I would say he didn’t have any idea what he was talking about. He was a hack writer that was picked up because it was useful in the support of the empire
So the ‘take the experimental treatment or you’ll loose your job’ wasn’t the Orwellian stuff? But the fact that some guy you don’t like bought a company and removed censorship is Orwellian? I’m confused. Have you read the book?
He would want people to act against any sign of government practices even starting to become more like 1984; the point of the book was to warn humanity by showing the end result of something we must NEVER allow to happen.
Being a Republican means reading 1984 and cribbing ideas from Big Brother. Rupert Murdoch said, "Hmm, I like this hate thing, but why only two minutes? We have a 24-hour news cycle!"
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No competition, they found both the dystopia and counter-utopia to be equally foreboding!
People really just know that 1984 is the popular political dystopia book and use it whether they actually read it or not.
He fought with socialists and anarchists during the Spanish Civil war and often spoke well of socialism and his comrades even after WW2
He was a big snitch though
So the ‘take the experimental treatment or you’ll loose your job’ wasn’t the Orwellian stuff? But the fact that some guy you don’t like bought a company and removed censorship is Orwellian? I’m confused. Have you read the book?
Still funny though.