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LadyAngelika -> RE: Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace, vid (3/2/2010 7:39:24 PM)
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Oh thank you for this pahunkboy. Brave New World is one of my favorite books ever.
When I was an undergrad, I read Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, written in 1985 as an answer to Orwell's 1984, who claimed that the contemporary world was better reflected by Huxley's Brave New World. He proposed that no government was taking away rights but rather that society, highly medicated and distracted by entertainment, was giving them up freely.
Of course, being the idealistic young woman that I was, I fervently debated how absolutely wrong Postman was. I was angry even, hated Postman. How dare he suggest such things.
Today, a little older, a little wiser, eyes wide open, looking at the world around me, wondering if people really see the difference between a Hollywood Blockbuster like 2012 and what happened in Haiti as it is all reported with the same media frenzy, I sadly change my position and say that unfortunately, Postman wasn't so far off the mark.
- LA
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