Excerpt from:2011: A Brave New Dystopia
by Chris Hedges
The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second.
Link to complete article:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227/
Reality bites!
ReplyDeleteI was having such a pleasant moment reliving the first ORCAA public hearing, and all of the informed, articulate speakers against the bio-ma$$acre of the Olympic Peninsula - and then I read this and was reminded that ORCAA is enforcing standards written by and for the biomass industry. Why should they mind being compliant with the rules they themselves have crafted through their hired thugs - who are also our elected officials.
What a sad state of affairs!