Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell vs Katy Perry

Aldous Huxley and his former student George Orwell wrote arguably the two most popular novels portending the West’s dystopian future. For decades, thinkers have opined on which of the two starkly distinct totalitarian nightmares–that of Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984–was more likely to come to pass (or, as some contend, had come to … Continue reading Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell vs Katy Perry