Amusing Ourselves to Death

"We have paid attention in 1984. When this year comes and there is no prophecy there, imaginary Americans sing and praise themselves. The roots of liberal democracy already I am there, I have not been a nightmare

But we forget that in addition to Orwell's dark vision there are something a bit older, slightly better, as well as chill. Contrary to the beliefs of the general public, even between educated people, Huxley and Orwell did not predict the same thing. Owell warned that we would be overcome by external suppression. However, with Huxley's vision, brothers do not need to deprive people from independence, maturity, and history. As he has seen, people prefer technologies that prejudice their oppression and impair their ability to think.

Orwell is worried about those who ban books. Mr. Huxley is worried that there is no reason to ban the book because nobody wants to read the book. Orwell is worried about people who will deprive us of information. Mr. Huxley is worried that if we give too much to us we become passive and self-interested people. Olwell worried that we might hide the truth. Huxley was worried that the truth might be drowned in a small sea. Orwell was worried about becoming a culture we were caught. Huxley is worried that we will become a self-evident culture focusing on some cute feelings, carnival greed, distant idiots. As Huxley said when reviewing the brave new world, civil liberals and rationalists opposed tyranny "do not take into account the infinite human distraction." Orwell added that in 1984 people were under painful control. In the brave new world, they are ruled by happiness. In short, Orwell is worried that what we worry about will ruin us. Huxley was worried that what we wanted ruined us.

Let yourself be addicted to death - Neil Postman explained that Audley Hesley can deceive himself if it is right. Even though I was worried about looking back on 1984, we did not realize that we lived in a brave new world. The more we accept, we do not know. The more you distract attention, the less freedom you have. If you can not define what freedom is, how do you know that you are not free? If you do not think about it anymore, what do you think? Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse tells the story of a man from his youth to adulthood, to enlightenment. This is a short and easy-to-read book full of wisdom. Every time I read it, I get something new; as I read it, I am in various stages of my life. It is not unusual for fans of this book to read books once a year. This is a book to discover and discover the meaning of life.

I agree with the view of Neil Postman, author of my book "Lovely Self-Death". I agree with this. I agree with this. I agree because all forms of communication feel that someone can describe what he wants to say. Postal items made a good observation of "Enable to die" on page 24. "You can imagine a modern economist by memorizing, a poem detailing the truth about our standard of living?" Writing poetry postman says it is not important though ... , These formal languages ​​are sure to express the truth about economic relations and any other relationship. "" The important thing is to find the right medium for us to express the words that we want to hear people That means that.