Modern Politics: Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman on closing the eyelids

on closing the eyelids

and then wiped out any enemy who MIGHT have been a threat to his throne

is an agony few people have experienced

I tried convincing everyone I knew to read it

William Wordsworth

Modern Politics: Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman on closing the eyelidsPOSTMAN: But we had forgotten that alongside Orwells dark vision, there was anotherslightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxleys Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxleys vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and