{"id":230,"date":"2010-08-23T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/23\/orwell-or-huxley\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T02:31:50","slug":"orwell-or-huxley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/23\/orwell-or-huxley\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell or Huxley ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recombinantrecords.net\/docs\/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html\" data-external=\"true\">insightful, funny, and kinda creepy comic<\/a> delves into the question of which author more accurately predicted the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Distopian\" data-external=\"true\">distopian<\/a> future &#8211; Orwell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Eighty-Four\" data-external=\"true\"><i>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/i><\/a> or Huxley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brave_New_World\" data-external=\"true\"><i>Brave New World<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text is taken from the book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipity.li\/jsmill\/post_1.html\" data-external=\"true\">Amusing Ourselves to Death<\/a><\/i> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Postman\" data-external=\"true\">Neil Postman<\/a>, art by Stuart McMillen. You can view a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recombinantrecords.net\/images\/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.pdf\" data-external=\"true\">4 page printable PDF<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-scribd wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-scribd wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/36313162\/content\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"36313162\" width=\"700\" height=\"1000\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">          (function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()        <\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>[scribd id=36313162 key=key-ghhrqaog8mfcr8wagxz mode=scroll]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This insightful, funny, and kinda creepy comic delves into the question of which author more accurately predicted the distopian future &#8211; Orwell&#8217;s Nineteen Eighty-Four or Huxley&#8217;s Brave New World. Text&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143,94,141],"tags":[816,817,814,815,813,704,812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}