Huxley or Orwell ?

[Dog-eared]

I found this while "stumbling " ( stumbleupon.com )

Huxley vs Orwell. Interesting.

http://imgur.com/gallery/zP5fa

[_Ju_]

Thank you for sharing that. Very interesting, especially since I read both way back when I was a young rebel.

Not sure I absolutely agree with the end statement though. I think that a mixture of the two are happening. I believe that knowledge of certain things is heavily guarded. Yet it is the drowning in inconsequential information that allows us to be blinded to certain things. Though some of our world touches on Orwellian aspects, it does look like Huxley's reality has become our own.

[Dog-eared]

I agree.
30 % Orwellian insofar as being denied information and being watched , 70% Huxley. IMHO :)

[Dog-eared]

No other opinions on this ? :)

[Cazaa]

I'll doublethink on this one.

Doubleplusgood thread for discussion though, Winston.

[crayola]

If Huxley were alive today do you think he would have named his third utopian book 'Org'?

Personally I couldn't see much difference between the allegedly horrific Brave New World and the supposedly genuinely utopian Island. I suppose that's what becoming an addict does to your intellect. :confused