Are We Amusing Ourselves To Death? | Neil Postman

[@ZacharyWarfel]

I've been listening to an audio version of this book. Excellent stuff so far, Herman! God bless your work!

[@GadflyAcademy]

Thanks brother! Stay tuned...lots more to come! 🙏🏻

[@shmooples7089]

Listening to the audio version as-well, how ironic it feels

[@davidwilliams7552]

All.are equal... but some are more equal than others... don't forget Animal Farm!

[@GadflyAcademy]

Yes, indeed! 🙏🏻

[@ChileVerdeDavid]

The reading list link isnt full. Cant open.

[@GadflyAcademy]

Apologies...YT truncates it on new accounts (!) Here you go: www.hermanmiddleton.com

[@goaway7163]

Copied this from the email I received. If you need it. Alexander, Christopher, The Timeless Way of Building Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism Berry, Wendell, What Are People For? Bloom, Allan, The Closing of the American Mind Chesterton, G.K., What's Wrong With The World Deneen, Patrick, Why Liberalism Failed Ellul, Jacques, The Technological Society Girard, René, Violence and the Sacred Holland, Tom, Dominion Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World Illich, Ivan, Deschooling Society Jackson, Wes, Nature As Measure Jacobs, Jane, Dark Age Ahead Lewis, C.S., The Abolition of Man Macintyre, Alasdair, After Virtue McGilchrist, Iain, The Master and His Emissary McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media Mumford, Lewis, The Myth of the Machine Postman, Neil, Technopoly Ruskin, John, Unto This Last Sherrard, Philip, The Eclipse of Man and Nature Sowell, Thomas, A Conflict of Visions

[@LastEarBender]

Our culture here is very Brave New World, yet we do have a fair amount of 1984 going on as well. It isn't a healthy blend for society as a whole.

[@GadflyAcademy]

Indeed...and alas(!)

[@kgrant67]

@@GadflyAcademy I think we're seeing a situation where the Huxleyan (sic?) vision got them about 85% of where they wanted to go and now they are going to have to implement the more outwardly draconian Orwellian vision to finish the job, which will be much easier since resistance has been so greatly reduced. So yeah, I think that what we're seeing is a hybrid with more and more Orwellian tactics coming in as sort of a clean up effort against the remaining resistance.

[@GadflyAcademy]

Something like that makes sense, alas(!)

[@sebastianalegria3401]

If you let me choose between New Brave World & 1984, I'd rather to read 1984 as Orwell saw the future coming through this novel, which describes this dystopian world where Winston Smith is a real threat for the thought police and especially for BIG BROTHER. Furthermore, think of what's happening in Cuba and Venezuela whose regimes seem endless.

[@GadflyAcademy]

Well...the entire "West" from Japan to North America is looking increasingly like Brave New World...