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AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH†

Postman, Neil·1985·ETC: A Review of General Semantics

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But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

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Authors: Postman, N.
Affiliations: Neil Postman is Editor of Et cetera.
Corresponding author: Postman, Neil
Venue: ETC: A Review of General Semantics
Publisher: Institute of General Semantics
Published: 1985
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Pages: 13-18
ISSN: 0014-164X (ISSN-L)
2168-9245
DOI: 10.66774/etc_4201_013
OpenAlex: W1586665605
Cited by: 1,117
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 14 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 72 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 46 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 33 · 2014: 46 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 33
FWCI: 71.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
Social Sciences › Communication › Media, Communication, and Education
Keywords: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, loss of autonomy, loss of history

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