Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
Aldous HuxleyTag: brave-new-world aldous-huxley un-mundo-feliz
We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
Christopher HitchensTag: history religion bible old-testament brave-new-world aldous-huxley martyrs prophets
Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.
Aldous HuxleyTag: brave-new-world
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
Aldous HuxleyTag: brave-new-world aldous-huxley helmholtz-watson
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.
Aldous HuxleyTag: brave-new-world
What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil PostmanTag: huxley brave-new-world aldous-huxley
I'm a little worried... Brave New World seems a bit more real everyday. . .
Solange nicoleTag: fear life society brave-new-world solange breakdown-of-society
That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.
Aldous HuxleyTag: brave-new-world
What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. It does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment. In America, we are never denied the opportunity to entertain ourselves.
Neil PostmanTag: politics society america television huxley 1984 george-orwell orwell brave-new-world aldous-huxley
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