For the past 50+ year, the US has become a psychological dictatorship; no matter which party is in charge; they win (or lose) elections by psychological warfare, not on issues, and voters don’t align themselves using logic and reason, but by being lured by false ideolical promises, even when they go against their own practical interests.
Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World has become a reality.
Does anyone see a way out?
Got any positive prediction?
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Upvoted b/c I think it’s unpopular.
But I agree with you OP. People like to talk about 1984, but that’s not the world we live in, or the path the US is headed down. Huxley was right. It’s not about censoring info, it’s about blasting everyone with so much information that they can’t process it all, nor discern what is real.
This isn’t an unpopular opinion. Most people agree that noone runs on actual issues, or has a plan, or even a real platform. They say the necessary things to get elected, and then spend most of their time trying to cling to power with their grubby little fingers.
Oh lol, no
The issue is maga
Burn the current paradigm down and rebuild a middle way from its recycled energy
It just reflects our culture now where people are just fed extremist rhetoric from both sides by social media. I remember the day when Republicans and Democrats were friends and you could actually agree with opinions from one side while voting the other. My wife and I were just talking about when we thought that the regular media might be slightly biased one way or the other. That’s just laughable as we can now see that was just child’s play bias back then as compared to what you get today from social media
A Brave New World “became a reality” because you prescribed it and I say this to all the Orwell tributaries as well.
I can just say that my blog is precisely about dystopia, as my nickname also suggest 🙂
You say this isn’t partisan, but as a Ray Bradbury fan I feel personally attacked right now
You say this isn’t partisan, but as a Ray Bradbury fan I feel personally attacked right now
Good satire reflects the times it was written in, and is not prescient. A Brave New World was a commentary on social norms and anxieties of the 1920s and 30s, and used a hyperbolic portrayal of the future to criticize it.
We’ve been living in a world of combined norms around this and 1984 since they were written, because they criticized a world that already existed.