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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 20
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      Orwell-pilled: when you can see your former 1984-ish condition Huxley-pilled: when you can see your former Brave New World condition Most of the people screaming “1984” are trapped in a Brave New World. The converse feels less true, but then I’m more H-pilled than O-pilled.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 20
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      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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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Scott W. Atlas

          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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          "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth." George Orwell, 1984
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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 20
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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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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 20
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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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        1. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim Oct 20
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          I enjoyed BNW much more than 1984, but YMMV. (I don't think I read either for school, and reread both after reading Postman.) For Huxley's other books, IIRC, I though Antic Hay was OK, but not great, and definitely remember that Doors of Perception was weird/boring.

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        2. Mr. Biggs‏ @wctgttm Oct 20
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          you should read it

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 20
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          At some point I might.

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        1. Corn Woman  🌽‏ @WomanCorn Oct 20
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          Sharing a comic because people are more likely to read it than, you know, a real book: Bradbury-pilled.

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        1. Somatic Historian‏ @ScottParkCO Oct 20
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          Orwell's Journalism books are super important, for the love of mediocre choice making! Not having read Huxley should immediately get you banned from Twitter. The meta-metaphor of conflating Freud and Ford is the prototype for all corporate-infantilization.

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