The author of 1984, another dystopian novel. Yet Orwell’s dystopia is very different from Huxley’s, and portrays the end of free thought and speech as being the result of strict government repression and violent control. Postman’s book argues that Orwell was wrong: that the things we love are in fact much more dangerous than the things we hate.
George Orwell Quotes in Amusing Ourselves to Death
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This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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George Orwell Quotes in Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Amusing Ourselves to Death quotes below are all either spoken by George Orwell or refer to George Orwell. 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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This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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