It has become commonplace, not to say cliched, to compare the day and age we live in to George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm and to Aldous Huxely’s Brave New World. I have many times commented on social media some variation of the complaint that these dystopian novels were intended to be warnings, not blueprints.
Very well framed. But the question hangs over us still: what is to be done to combat the fragmentation of reality as it becomes ever more rapidly replaced by halftruths, nonsensical whimsy, and whole-cloth lies which in some cases are being codified and passed off as reality?
Very well framed. But the question hangs over us still: what is to be done to combat the fragmentation of reality as it becomes ever more rapidly replaced by halftruths, nonsensical whimsy, and whole-cloth lies which in some cases are being codified and passed off as reality?