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What if Huxley was right?
submitted 3 years ago by bobbobbybob from media.8kun.top
[–]jet199Instigatrix 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Both are right.
I mean Orwells stuff was based on societies which actually existed while he was alive, he can't not be right.
[–]Questionable 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Taking that these concepts are not true polar opposites, no one can actually be 'right' in this case. These are just tools for control.
[–]Kyto113 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
What a stupid premise. Neither are "right". They are both pointing at tendencies and flaws in human nature.
And just a reminder something big happened between the publication of brave New world and 1984 that explains the shift in perspective...
[–]horatioherbert 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
It’s not stupid to meme about the works of great thinking minds
[–]IridescentAnaconda 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
?Por qué no los dos?
[–]soundsalad 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Def a combination.
[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
They are trying to ban books (JK Rowling) and censor TV (bill nye from the 90's). SO huxley and Orwell both had good points that have come true today, IMO.
[–]the-ham-bummer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
I would not discount a good cop huxley vs bad cop orwell, when regimes headed for the second one get overturned people want the first. I am in the street protesting the mismanagement of Covid emergency but I know people mostly want some free money and work as little as possible. This is why the lefty seventies ended in the little capitalist eighties.
[–]bobbobbybob[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
yes, the question is a little rhetorical, both systems are in play
[–]beyoncepaddock 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
What about the unabomber manifesto?
[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
It's not one or the other.
[–]SmallPP 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
both are right in their own way
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I've never seen this on the internet before, this is a great comic, if you could even call it that.
[–]jet199Instigatrix 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
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[–]the-ham-bummer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
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