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I don’t think that’s unpopular. In fact I’m pretty sure that’s the commonplace view among people who have read both books.
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That's not a lot of people!
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soft totalitarianism, where our own laziness and in-built elitism and love of comfort make us willing conspirators
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Kinda tired of the 1984 <—> Brave New World axis of dystopia. There are so many other possibilities
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I’m more of the “It Can’t Happen Here” school.
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That's a pretty popular opinion, actually. Soma will be Augmented Reality. Strong threads from both works, though. Come on
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Sure, if you think pornography and gestational surrogacy are grave threats to the social order. There’s a reason Brave New World is the preferred dystopia of anti-LGBT conservatives—it’s a profoundly reactionary diatribe against cultural liberalism.
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Birth control and polyamory, too. Brave New World is a screed against everything today’s religious conservatives hate. Each time a state considers liberalizing its gestational surrogacy laws, opponents scream about ushering in a Brave New World dystopia.
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This is the argument of the introduction to Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), as turned into cartoon form here: http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-vs-orwell-infinite-distraction-or-government-oppression/ …
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