Huxley

Facebook: Where Huxley beats Orwell Facebook, and other social networking sites, just may be where the dystopian nightmares of Aldous Huxley will beat out the horrors imagined by George Orwell. In Orwell's familiar, overdue vision Big...

In this article: Facebook, George Orwell, National Public Radio, Christianity, Big Brother, MySpace, Aldous Huxley, and American Civil Liberties Union

...in democratic ages is not to be fierce or cruel, but minute and meddling." The vision and even the language anticipate Orwell's 1984, or Huxley's Brave New World. Tocqueville describes the new tyranny as "an immense and tutelary power," and...

In this article: 1984, George Orwell, Alexis de Tocqueville, Big Brother, Reason, Democracy, Ideology, Fascism, and Al Gore

...be most concerned about. With that conversation in mind, I was rather pleased when I came across amusing ourselves to death - a comparison between the world views of Huxley and Orwell (via Frances Bell). Stay in touch with the...

In this article: George Orwell, RSS Feed, Big Brother, University of Manitoba, and Aldous Huxley

...on the fictional island of Pala. Island is Huxley's utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 novel Brave New World, itself often paired with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The ideas that would become Island can be...

In this article: Island, Brave New World, Pala, Chad, Democracy, God, and Mescaline

...New World. As the American author Neil Postman wrote in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, whereas "Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us, Huxley feared the truth would be droned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we...

In this article: George Orwell, Britain, Nineteen Eighty-Four, US, Democracy, Ministry of Truth, Recycling, and Dog

...Huxley's Brave New World (1932) "must be partly derived from" We. However, in a 1962 letter, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World long before he had heard of We. According to We translator Natasha Randall, Orwell believed that Huxley...

In this article: Yevgeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Jerome K. Jerome, Genesis, Brave New World, and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...that. And it's a big challenge, in fact. Because when you look at the two players or visionaries in the field, at that moment [it] would be Huxley and it would be Orwell and that was 60 or 75 years ago. They were predictions in a way, they...

In this article: Ridley Scott, Brave New World, George Orwell, Big Brother, Aldous Huxley, Albino, and 1984

...prophetic thinkers of the twentieth century were George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Contrary to common belief, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warned in his novel 1984 of an authoritarian government run by Big Brother...

In this article: George Orwell, Neil Postman, Big Brother, 1984, and Culpability