In a time where the educated feared controlling governments and harsh societies, Neil Postman contrasts how the vision of the future between George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World in society decades after the original release of the books. When 1984 came and went, Postman tells how people silently applauded themselves for not letting that controlling society take root.
Although some people may think that the ideas planted by George Orwell present themselves in the current society, Postman 's assertion that Huxley’s slightly scarier version of the future is more relevant than Orwell’s continually stays prevalent throughout the past few decades.
Postman uses the ideologies of both books to state the obvious differences between them. While Orwell feared people that kept information hidden, Huxley feared people who gave too much information out. Mustapha Mond tells John that, “science is dangerous; [the inner party has] to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley 203) because the government does not want people to explore the world, yet the society needs it for hypnopaedia and bokanovskification process. Both authors’ fears can be bad if held to extreme ends, but Huxley’s worry is more present in current …show more content…
In Postman 's’ article, he dictates that Huxley’s fear of what society may turn to is much more rational than Orwells. Whether it be too much information be let out at once, or truth that is drowned in a sea of irrelevance, with new technology it is easier let information accidentally slip away from its owners. With everything humans love growing more and more all the time, it is not hard to believe that those loved things will be what ruins society. With all of this, Postman 's assertion that Huxley vision is more likely than
Although some people may think that the ideas planted by George Orwell present themselves in the current society, Postman 's assertion that Huxley’s slightly scarier version of the future is more relevant than Orwell’s continually stays prevalent throughout the past few decades.
Postman uses the ideologies of both books to state the obvious differences between them. While Orwell feared people that kept information hidden, Huxley feared people who gave too much information out. Mustapha Mond tells John that, “science is dangerous; [the inner party has] to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley 203) because the government does not want people to explore the world, yet the society needs it for hypnopaedia and bokanovskification process. Both authors’ fears can be bad if held to extreme ends, but Huxley’s worry is more present in current …show more content…
In Postman 's’ article, he dictates that Huxley’s fear of what society may turn to is much more rational than Orwells. Whether it be too much information be let out at once, or truth that is drowned in a sea of irrelevance, with new technology it is easier let information accidentally slip away from its owners. With everything humans love growing more and more all the time, it is not hard to believe that those loved things will be what ruins society. With all of this, Postman 's assertion that Huxley vision is more likely than