| Huxley vs. Orwell George Orwell wrote the book 1984 in which he expressed that the future would include governments who banned books. What Aldous Huxley wrote in Brave New World was that we should fear a future in which there would be no reason to ban a book because nobody wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. And now we are seeing that Huxley was more perceptive as we see the Anschluss (German for "link-up") occurring. The Anschluss is represented by the computers linking up with each other via the Internet. As these computers acquire the world's information, the Internet is becoming God. To survive, a human must also link-up with the Internet God. Next |
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