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| Author: | Müs [ Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Orwell V. Huxley |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:25 pm ] |
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Amusingly, Amusing Ourselves to Death inspired a Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) solo album, entitled Amused to Death. Good album, the best of Waters' solo efforts. |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Orwell V. Huxley |
The last panel suggests that what we love may be ruining us, but it seems to me the author (and Huxley?) is making a leap by attributing negative characteristics to that scenario, i.e. living a content but... unaspiring life. I sound a bit like a hippie there, but I just can't shake that idea! :p Though ultimately I think this is a whole bunch of Chicken Little nonsense, such as the recent thread we had somewhere that mentioned how the new generation of kids these days are going to ruin society. I think it still makes for an interesting discussion though, even if I don't think anything will actually come of it. |
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| Author: | Rynar [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:10 pm ] |
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I think it would be foolish to assume that the two ideas are mutually exclusive. |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:26 pm ] |
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Content and aspiring, or Orwell's and Huxley's? |
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| Author: | Rynar [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:32 pm ] |
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Orwell's and Huxley's. |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Orwell V. Huxley |
Plenty of ruin to go around! I do agree, though. Even if you take the most nefarious scenario where there's one Authority intentionally using both ideas, that still doesn't rule out either idea happening naturally. It would be hard to make an argument that they are mutually exclusive. I wonder if that was addressed in the book. |
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| Author: | Stathol [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:27 pm ] |
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Split the difference and go with Ray Bradbury. |
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| Author: | Rynar [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:03 am ] |
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Stathol wrote: Split the difference and go with Ray Bradbury. Ya know what? Yes. Bradbury and his Fahrenheit 451 are largely underrated in these discusions. |
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| Author: | Stathol [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:03 pm ] |
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I spent a good minute trying to figure out what the heck you were talking about, and then I realized you said underrated, not unrelated. /facepalm |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:07 pm ] |
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When she was about 11, I handed my daughter my old copy of Martian Chronicles. She devoured large parts of my seriously unorganized SF collection over the next several years. About three weeks ago she asked me not to E-Bay the books or magazines, she wants them, please, when she can afford the space to keep them. Little geek thinks I'm going to die someday. Eh, she's probably right. |
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| Author: | Adrak [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:25 pm ] |
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Stathol wrote: Split the difference and go with Ray Bradbury. Ryner's comment and this. Happy Birthday Stathhol BTW |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:17 pm ] |
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Micheal wrote: When she was about 11, I handed my daughter my old copy of Martian Chronicles. She devoured large parts of my seriously unorganized SF collection over the next several years. About three weeks ago she asked me not to E-Bay the books or magazines, she wants them, please, when she can afford the space to keep them. I literally filled my trunk and most of my back seat with boxes of Amdee's books two weeks ago. I'm being lazy and haven't unloaded them all yet, but I'm considering typing up a "from the library of.." post/thread at some point. |
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| Author: | Rynar [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:38 pm ] |
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: Micheal wrote: When she was about 11, I handed my daughter my old copy of Martian Chronicles. She devoured large parts of my seriously unorganized SF collection over the next several years. About three weeks ago she asked me not to E-Bay the books or magazines, she wants them, please, when she can afford the space to keep them. I literally filled my trunk and most of my back seat with boxes of Amdee's books two weeks ago. I'm being lazy and haven't unloaded them all yet, but I'm considering typing up a "from the library of.." post/thread at some point. That would be a great thread. |
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| Author: | Wwen [ Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:15 am ] |
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I really like Postman's book. He has another one called "How to Watch Television News." I try to just not watch it. |
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