This cartoon sums up Neil Postman’s observation that Aldous Huxley appears to be correct that censorship isn’t necessary to intellectually disengage citizens.
Huxley and Orwell
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:January 2, 2010
- Post category:Censorship / Communication / Community
- Post comments:3 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
great find, it is a great comparison of how both were both the same and completely different.
Reminds me of Duran Duran's song "Too Much Information". Here is an excellent fan video of the song that I like better than the official video.
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Niklaus: I posted the video directly under your comment. I'm reminded of George Millers' "Magic number" of 7, plus or minus 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_S…
There are formidable limits to human working memory, though we prefer to think that we can "take everything into account" even though it is often impossible to do this, physiologically speaking.