Favorite Sci-fi or Privacy movies/tv?

Gopher:

In reality

Gopher:

things nominally seem to be functioning as normal as stupid trivial distractions of mass media and consumption keep us busy

Off topic, but isnt this just obviously contingent on what society and time period you’re looking at? I doubt this paints an accurate picture of the Third Reich or North Korea even though I’m not remotely historically oriented.

This is a notoriously popular comparison between BNW and 1984, but at the end of the day it reads as “X author predicted current state of affairs! Wowza, genius” when in reality both are just stories. They both contribute to the literary world and culture more than they do to politics. We learn from Brave New World only insofar as we learn from stories in general , and I think it’s worth it to say that we also learn from 1984 as a story. Like yea, our very developed, high-income, Western, society happens to resemble BNW more than it does 1984. So what? It isn’t like BNW is a political theory we can draw from. It’s as much that as 1984 is, which is not at all