1984 vs Brave New World - How Freedom Dies

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[rhammond]

If you don't control your mind someone else will

[_theoriginalbhandles_Genflag]

Over 20 years ago, when I was in 8th grade, my principal stopped me in the hall to tell me that my copy of 1984 was inappropriate for me to have, that I wasn't old enough to read it, and not to bring it back to school.

Orwell was right, he just didnt realize the censorship would start along side the hedonism that Huxley predicted.

[Crumbsoftotailtariansim]

Old books will tell so much more than modern news or even events.

[Cjohn]

It doesn't matter if its capitalism or socialism if a hand full of people are given all the authority you always end up in hell

[traillesstravelled]

They're both right. That's why the 3 circle diagram of 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451, hits hard and is accurate. Remember it possible for multiple things to happening at the same time.

[jerryjones]

I read both of these books before I was 14. Now, 55 years later, I appreciate them much more.

[edyvero]

Scary how the books showing us of a fictional future coming true. And now these books are starting to be banned

[WeAreAllOneNature]

''Democracies die, not from military coups, but from being dismantled slowly by bureaucrats and judges, through libel laws, through tax audits, and procedure''. This is what a BBC Radio 4 program called 'Analysis:How To Dismantle a Democracy' will say tonight.

[jkdeadman]

I feel like we are controlled through both pleasure and pain.

[edelkebap]

We are already living in a mixture of 1984 and Brave New World. I'm currently waiting for a real life triple mix with Fahrenheit 451.

[schoolofhardknocks]

As I have gotten older now 33 I now have better understanding of why things just didn't sit right with me. The world is vastly different from the lies that are fed to us all when we were younger. God help us all but just as important we the free must help each other.

[rebeccadanvers]

I found Huxley's dystopia much more frightening that Orwells

[niccoloflorence]

Look what is happening to Julian Assange: can you still say we are not in a totalitarian society!

[Kronikalrag]

I always have this image in my head of people who are oblivious to there own reality. It's of a swimmer coming up for air except he is tethered to the bottom by the foot, there is full range of movement so the individual feels "free" and can come up for air anytime, but in reality the pool is being drained and filled giving the illusion of ones own freedom.

[linuxman]

We pretty much have socialism for big corporations nowadays. Where big businesses and the government are one in the same, and the rights of individuals are allowed up until they interfere with a corporation.

[leighlong]

It's turning into a combination of both books, very frightening.

[lonecanadian]

We live in a combination of the two narratives. If you will not willingly succumb to the distractions of hedonism, then force will be used to prevent you from spreading the notion that it can be resisted.

[mayawhitesparks]

We have been living in an authoritarian dystopia with unseen controllers…now we are beginning to see what’s been going on and waking up to throw off our chains.

[dynasty]

We are building A.I. together without realizing it. As a matter of fact, since the start of our use of the internet we have been inputting all the data for the A.I.
We gave it/ are still giving A.I. its data.

[joshualumbe]

"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.".. George Orwell _1984