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Dystopia Eagerness (See ZEAL.) Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s grim picture of the future, where scientific and social developments have turned life into a tragic travesty. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 79] inhabitants worship superficiality, unreason, inconsistency, and evasion: a lampoon of 19th-century society. [Br. Lit.: Erewhon in Haydn & Fuller, 239] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Orwell, Huxley, and other dystopians understood that technology wedded to unaccountable power amplifies human weaknesses -- resulting in terror, mass bloodshed, and despotism. Conspiracy folklore does the same thing for the same reason, except that most of these dystopians actually believe in the worlds they've invented. In particular, he approves of the view held in common by the dystopians of unadulterated technological advance as the immediate problem and human nature as the underlying problem. |
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