Anti-Intellectualism

[Kantor]

sapphi_snake said:

Kantor said:

sapphi_snake said:

The quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four was nice, but modern society doesn't resemble the one from that book (unless you live in North Korea). Most people just referece taht book due to it's commercial success and popularity, however it's very inaccurate. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a much more accurate illistration of what Western society is becoming, especially when we're talking about "anti-intellectualism".

I think you're right there.

However bad the reality of the world gets, we still have the ability to rebel and turn against our overlords without fear of punishment.

What we lack is the desire to do any such thing. We are happy in our consumerist society. Those of us who aren't grumble a bit, get looked at funnily by other people, and then group together. It's pretty much exactly Brave New World, but without the soma (interestingly, Huxley said we would need Soma to become like the society he predicted).

Really? Don't people take all kinds of things like Valium these days?

Valium (Diazepam) has far too many side effects to be widely used. It's a prescription drug, if I'm not mistaken.