Are We 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'?

Have we come to love the sources of our oppression?

Two classic books, Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley (videos) and 1984 by George Orwell, the first published in 1932 and the second published in 1949, offered dark visions of modern society. Orwell’s prediction, published at the start of the Cold War and emergence of the totalitarian threat posed by Soviet Russia, initially seemed far more real and far mo…