Comment by irishcoffee

4 hours ago

Brave New World always gets overlooked. I understand why we gravitate towards 1984, however it sure seems like we are much closer to BNW. What is TikTok (read: all of the addictive parts of the internet/smartphones) if not a gramme?

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oliyoung  2 hours ago

BNW has proven to be far more prescient, and insidiously so, than 1984

  • irishcoffee  2 hours ago

    Yeah, that and Atlas Shrugged, but mentioning that book is a magnet for dissention.

    Edit: I was correct, and I don't understand why. Was AS somehow twisted for political reasons? It's a great book.

gampleman  4 hours ago

I always thought if Orwell was quite prescient of the eastern block than surely Huxley was even more so about the western.

  • pohl  3 hours ago

    Huxley was plenty prescient. Soma is basically scrolling for dopamine hits and distraction.