Edit: Sigh… I got the dystopia wrong. Apparently everyone is apathetic in 1984 of their own free will and just drink, smoke and do morphine.
Brave New World is apathy through euphoria through soma.
Which yeah, drugged euphoria is not happiness.
Edit: Sigh… I got the dystopia wrong. Apparently everyone is apathetic in 1984 of their own free will and just drink, smoke and do morphine.
Brave New World is apathy through euphoria through soma.
Which yeah, drugged euphoria is not happiness.
We are MUCH MUCH closer to the BNW/Fahrenheit 451 dystopias than 1984.
I mean, people are willingly spending money to have a telescreen in their house.
Everyone talks to their phones instead of typing now, and like microphones and cameras are everywhere.
And we have let all infrastructure start to fail as long as it isnt a shiny thing rich people interact with.
I dunno man its getting pretty 1984.
1984 forced all of that.
Brave New World, people LOVE it and can’t imagine any other way to live.
Brave New World is the nightmare dystopia we CHOOSE, not the one that gets forced on us.
Oh for sure people view the idea of being reduced to an object of the state apparently shockingly happily enough.
But we have a department of war that our dear leader of just got a peace medal and awards. Like the doublespeak is here. And we dont spit people out of bottles already premade for their role.
Department of education is run by an entertainer who also cuts budget for schools.
Its definitely a mix of them.
I think the world is 1984, but the vibes are desperate for the fake utopia of Brave New World.
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