Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

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Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

Poll ended at Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:24 pm

Orwell
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33%
Huxley
2
67%
 
Total votes: 3

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Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

Post by Nom De Plume » Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:24 pm

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Re: Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

Post by Nom De Plume » Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:04 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caCkMX6 ... cQ&index=2[/youtube]
Love Your Servitude - Aldous Huxley & George Orwell
977,267 views Feb 3, 2021 Aldous Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively.

George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism and mass surveillance. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

The profound animation from 12:30 to 15:45 of this video is from "IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey - Animated Short Film" by Lubomir Arsov
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Re: Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

Post by Nom De Plume » Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:25 pm

I think that it is a bit of both, with Huxley's dystopian world view being better realized than Orwell's.
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Re: Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

Post by Aussie » Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:29 pm

Nom De Plume wrote:
Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:25 pm
I think that it is a bit of both, with Huxley's dystopian world view being better realized than Orwell's.
Don't take this as a criticism of you ~ but like that bloke who commented on companies, both Orwell and Huxley do much the same....present a critique of 'life' as they saw it at the time, rather than do that AND present a practical alternative.

I suppose, given the history of mankind, there really is no magic wand and we meander pillar to post from time to time.

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Re: Orwell vs Huxley - Who was Right?

Post by AiA in Atlanta » Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:37 pm

The future belongs to Huxley. If you haven't read Yuval Noah Harari, do so.

Why Brave New World is a terrifying guidebook to our future

https://archive.ph/eSGrB#selection-1189.1-1189.60

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