Would like to check this book out, but why does one of them have to be wrong? On a commission for using the word fear, possibly.
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My computer is about to explode with pop ups and stuff- it's a nightmare!)
[...
Orwell feared those who would ban books. What
Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information.
Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us.
Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.
Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble puppy. As
Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "
failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984,
Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short,
Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us.
Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us...]
This book is about the possibility that
Huxley, not
Orwell, was right.”
―
Neil Postman,
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business