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Re:Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do by lunaru on Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:16PM (#2855243)
Just want to add that A Brave New World is one of those books that doesn't get as much attention as its counterpart 1984. The latter seems to have become a talking point, a reduced to a symbol thrown around in arguments.
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Re:Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do by notahacker on Sunday August 07, 2011 @07:49AM (#2856440)
One of the latter's more enduring motifs actually ended up as the title for the type of TV show Orwell coined the word prolefeed for...

Brave New World is probably actually the more relevant book to today's hedonistic, rampantly consumerist world. Even if the slightly tongue-in-cheek references to 'his Fordship' seem a little quaint we certainly haven't lost our tendency to worship distantly superrich media personalities. Then again, we're probably too busy checking our Facebook feeds to go back and read it

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Re:Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do by Iv on Monday August 15, 2011 @06:23PM (#2888970)
You know, when I read Brave New World 15 years ago I couldn't help but say to myself that it would be a great world to live in if the lower castes were actually replaced by robots.
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