Click the image for a frighteningly accurate description of American culture. (Don’t worry; it’s just a cartoon, so it won’t capture your attention for too long…)
Orwell was afraid of external tyranny–that we would be controlled by outside forces. Huxley was afraid of internal tyranny–that we would be controlled by our own pleasure and distractions. Dang. I need to read Brave New World again, a book written in the 1930s and intended not as prediction so much as a warning. Clearly we weren’t warned.
(She writes while she simultaneously blogs, tweets, works, and listens to music. Distraction, anyone?)
June 9, 2009 at 4:00 pm |
ummm, kinda creepy.
June 9, 2009 at 5:00 pm |
i read 1984 at the beginning of the year and am 3/4 of the way through brave new world right now. if you are into this kind of stuff you should read these books:
1) Tragedy and Hope and 2) The Anglo-American Establishment both
by Carroll Quigley
3) The New World Order and 4) The Shape of Things to Come both
by H.G. Wells
5) The Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin
all good reads and very informative. read these books and you’ll look at the world we live in differently and start questioning the “news” we get from corporate media.
anyways, thanks for posting.
June 10, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
I do not like the book A Brave New World. Not much pay off for all the hype around it.
July 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm |
Silence and solitude. Valuable commodities in this noisy – electronic – people – world of mine! Somehow the little ones in our lives bring us back to what’s ‘real’.