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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

Precisely why I love Aldous Huxley so fucking much.

I need to read this Brave New World book now.

 Why it’s been one of my favorite books since the 9th grade.

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 of what the author’s trying to say.

But what I do understand scares me.

This comic amuses me because about half of it is wrong.

Orwell feared technology, not book burning. He worried that we would be made complacent by television, radio, etc. Not that we would censor books.

He worried about both; they were looking to censor words in general through getting rid of certain words like “freedom” altogether.

Which would also obviously censor books.

Not to mention all of the editing I’m sure the government did. I mean, just look at what they did to the newspapers, and isn’t there a part where it talks about how hard it is to obtain any kind of book, written in or no, at all?

…Actually, I was completely wrong here. I got Orwell and 1984 mixed up with Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451, and not for the first time, either.

My bad.

Heh, whoops.

Farenheit 451 is another book that I need to read…