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The Author of Brave New World, a dystopian novel about the demise of culture. Huxley’s book imagines a future world where the things we love destroy us: our desire to be entertained, to be shallowly happy, results in the virtual elimination of thought itself. Postman’s book suggests that Huxley’s account will be proven right if we are not more mindful of how we interact with media.
Aldous Huxley Quotes in Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Amusing Ourselves to Death quotes below are all either spoken by Aldous Huxley or refer to Aldous Huxley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Foreword Quotes
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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Chapter 6 Quotes
Had Irving Berlin changed one word in the title of his celebrated song [There’s No Business like Show Business], he would have been as prophetic, albeit more terse, as Aldous Huxley. He need only have written, There's No Business But Show Business.
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Chapter 11 Quotes
Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes in Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Amusing Ourselves to Death quotes below are all either spoken by Aldous Huxley or refer to Aldous Huxley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Foreword Quotes
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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Chapter 6 Quotes
Had Irving Berlin changed one word in the title of his celebrated song [There’s No Business like Show Business], he would have been as prophetic, albeit more terse, as Aldous Huxley. He need only have written, There's No Business But Show Business.
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Chapter 11 Quotes
Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
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