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"As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
This book (1985) is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
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I won't read the entirety of Huxley's BNWR because I'm at work and that's gonna take some time (though it looks like it'll be damn worth it)
I wonder how he'd react to the current world, on how social media and corporate internet have isolated people within echo chambers and feed us nonstop slop. Neil Postman's book just got bumped to "next to read" for me, though it'll be a while until I finish The Dawn of Everything