Ling- English
Orwell feared oppression. No need, said Huxley, triviality is what makes us irrelevant
From the Foreword to Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public discourse in the age of show business (20th anniversary edition, by Neil Postman, Penguin Books 2006. First edition published in 1985. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another--slightly older, slightly less well-known,