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		_oghd on Aug 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is this the end of social networking? yes! thank you. huxley was right about a scary number of things... this debate between will self and adam gopnik on 'brave new world' vs '1984' is really good if anybody has 1.5 hours to indulge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw just grabbed 'amusing ourselves to death' from libby, thanks for the recommendation!

thenerdhead on Aug 11, 2022 [–]

perhaps that video was inspired by postman's famous comparison. here's the comic form:

https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...

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