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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen (May 2009)
Aldous Huxley (Author: “Brave New World”) vs. George Orwell (Author: Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Amusing Ourselves to Death <3
And nowadays they’re using a nice balance of the two…
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Realistically, we’re kinda between the two. Aren’t we? People in some parts of the world are being tortured and...
Heh, whoops. Farenheit 451 is another book that I need to read…
And the fact that the government in that book is smart enough to dictate and control what they want? It’s total and...
It terrifies me, too; that’s why I love it. I find people in my classes tend to be more scared by 1984 because the idea...
Which would also obviously censor books....…Actually, I was completely wrong here. I got...
He worried about both; they were looking to censor words in general through getting rid of certain words like “freedom”...
This comic amuses me because about half of it is wrong. Orwell feared technology, not book burning. He worried that we...
I’ve only just started reading it this weekend, and I think I’m going to wind up needing to read it twice to catch half...
Why it’s been one of my favorite books since the 9th grade.