I was indiscriminately wondering around in Facebook — the very sense of irony — when I was directed to quite an interesting little online comic, Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Stuart McMillen;
“Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us…”
And;
“Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us…”
As it turns out it was largely inspired by Neil Postman’s book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse on the Age of Show Business,” which argues “Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
I’d say, strangely, both were correct. You?