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[oldcynic]

Roughly what Neil Postman thought around 30 years ago then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

[code_duck → oldcynic]

Right, more like Brave New World than 1984, I reckon. But that's not to say either style has to be dystopic.

[acct1771 → code_duck]

I...have you read those books?

[code_duck → acct1771]

You mean, regarding the dystopic aspect? Of course the societies depicted in those novels are dystopic, but I mean that it's possible to have similar systems of societal control in place without their being taken to an extreme.

[acct1771 → code_duck]

...how do you know?

[slowmovintarget → code_duck]

Bruce Sterling: Distraction

...also Heavy Weather