![]() “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. Keillor writes, “Cultural critic Neil Postman spelled out the difference in his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death:” “ Brave New World is often compared with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948), since they each offer a view of a dystopian future,” Mr. Keillor’s anecdote this morning caught my attention when he discussed the similarities of the books. ![]() In his Writer’s Almanac this morning, Garrison Keillor informs us that today is the birthday of Aldous Huxley, born in 1894. Huxley wrote his masterpiece in 1931 Orwell wrote his in 1949, the year I was born. Both describe a dystopian society of the future. ![]() ![]() As a young man, I failed to read two important books that continue to be revered as classics, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ![]()
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