Orwell vs. Huxley

[GeorgiaBoy]

See below.

[Alex V]

no?

I liked Brave New World more than 1984...

Plus Demolition Man was totally taken from Brave New World and that move was awesome! :cool:

[cqbdriver]

Death Race 2000 - My whole SHTF plan is based on that movie.

[GeorgiaBoy]

no?

I liked Brave New World more than 1984...



I was going to post a cartoon that went over about 10 key differences between Orwell's future predictions and Huxley's, and how it was really Huxley's that have come true. But the picture wasn't big enough to read.

This isn't the same one I was going to post, but it still gets the basic message across:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7889064708_8bcaaf8404_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/73307770@N04/7889064708/)

[a0cake]

Great read on Orwell for anyone who's interested:

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/0465030491

Hitchens on Orwell and Huxley:

"We dwell in a present-tense culture that somehow, significantly, decided to employ the telling expression 'you're history' as a choice reprobation or insult, and thus elected to speak forgotten volumes about itself. By that standard, the forbidding dystopia of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four already belongs, both as a text and as a date, with Ur and Mycenae, while the hedonist nihilism of Huxley still beckons toward a painless, amusement-sodden, and stress-free consensus. Orwell's was a house of horrors. He seemed to strain credulity because he posited a regime that would go to any lengths to own and possess history, to rewrite and construct it, and to inculcate it by means of coercion. Whereas Huxley ... rightly foresaw that any such regime could break but could not bend. In 1988, four years after 1984, the Soviet Union scrapped its official history curriculum and announced that a newly authorized version was somewhere in the works. This was the precise moment when the regime conceded its own extinction. For true blissed-out and vacant servitude, though, you need an otherwise sophisticated society where no serious history is taught."

[Mjolnir]

Neither are our allies. Both were monsters.

Do a bit of research on them.

[duece71]

1984 was a great read. I need to read the Huxley book for a comparison.