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1984 VS Brave New World

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Jianfre:
1984 is true in many aspects.

The idea of a thought crime exists, especially with terrorism. 1984 is scarier because it is coming true. Especially how some of the technology came FROM 1984. Like head phones and the wall sized tvs and the concept of interactive programming. For the time it was outlandish and scary... but it becoming more and more real.

Temuthril:
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sephiro499:
Brave new world, Huxley admitted during a speech in the 60 at UC berkeley that it was non fiction.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1vMWjknRzw

He said 'people will learn to love their servitude.'

AoG:
I dont know why everyone hates on brave new world as a dystopia. It seems like a pretty sweet place to live. We are all servants to our culture and society there is always an upper and a lower. A society that manages to keep the lower truly happy and the upper truly happy is a place that anyone would love to be born into.

What people fail to understand is they take there current thinking and attitudes and place themselves into the situation. When this would not be the case your being and who you are is not set at the creation of your life. It is something molded and developed(nurture) sure genetics(nature) plays a part but Huxley accounted for this by manipulating it. So those things that people feel they would be unhappy with and are wrong would not make people unhappy and would not be wrong because no one thinks there wrong. Right and wrong is an invention of man. So what ever man thinks is right at any given time is right and what ever man thinks is wrong at any given time is wrong and it is bound to change as man changes.

r-18:
brave new world was probably worse in the way it was embraced by the people ...but if you want to read a book that makes both look like a picnick in the park ...read .." we "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

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