Huxley vs Orwell comic. Says a lot about which world we’re living in that I’m sharing a comic. Also that I’ve read Orwell (both 1984 and Animal Farm) but not actually read Huxley. Only a synopsis.https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webcomic-2/ …
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This is clearly someone in a Brave New World. How on earth do you unironically quote Orwell while being Trump’s advisor and part of the Hoover institute getting market intel in March? You do it by being in a BNW.https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1318136468544589825 …
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It is notable that for all the screaming about censorship, if it’s actually hard for anyone to find the NY Post stuff on Hunter Biden, or Atlas’s Brave New Thoughts about masks, it’s not because of information suppression but the sheer noise levels. Which is Huxleyean.
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Wonder if the Streisand effect of the Twitter actions drove more eyeballs to the NY Post stuff than blocking it stopped. Either way this is a chapter out of BNW, not 1984.
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I think if we're framing this in regards to *future generations* (i.e. Gen Z) then pacification/distraction is what we really have to worry about.
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I’m surprised it’s always Orwell vs Huxley and not Fahrenheit 451. But yeah, out of these two Orwell is more like Soviet block during Stalin era, Huxley is much more relevant now.
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Definitely Ray-Pilled.
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take the PKD-pill to see reality in all its schizophrenic gloryhttp://bostonreview.net/literature-culture-arts-society/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans …
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Huxley was Orwell’s teacher at Eton. Huxley went to California which inspired the idea of Soma. Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War and lived rough in Paris, and was a colonial official in Burma. The context of a writers experience matters.
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