Re:Flood Washington with 1984
by riffraff on Monday June 10, 2013 @05:54AM
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I'd say it's neither.
Much of the power of the 1984 picture is the totalitarian state where everyone is afraid all the time, and that is not the image we have now.
But much of the picture in Brave New World is that there is no real need for hard repression as people simply don't rebel and are happy with their comfy lives.
The reality here would seems kind of in between (people mostly don't care _and_ the state is more scary).
But much of the picture in Brave New World is that there is no real need for hard repression as people simply don't rebel and are happy with their comfy lives.
The reality here would seems kind of in between (people mostly don't care _and_ the state is more scary).