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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Sound Like A R.I.C.O. Violation?
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US welcome the coming overtaking of our society and US love our overlords.
Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were 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 our oppressors would deprive us of information. Huxley feared that our oppressors would give us so much information that we would ignore it and 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 stars, heroes, and other political/religious morons beckoning that their lives mean something and that this is the full life we should desire or some other type of crap fulfillment they believe we deserve because of them. 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 and distraction.
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
We should fear both worlds.
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