Monday, February 1, 2010

amusing ourselves to death


illustrations from Stuart McMillen's cartoon blog
Recombinant Records

words from
"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business"
a book published 1985(!) by Neil Postman about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

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- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, published in 1949
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman, published 1985

oh well...
...subtle irony?

who wins?
you decide!

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