amodernmanifesto:

fuckitbukowskiwasright:

aisle7:

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen (May 2009)

Aldous Huxley (Author: “Brave New World”) vs. George Orwell (Author: Nineteen Eighty-Four)

posted this before, but this is laid out really nice for tumblr.

What they never imagined is that both would happen simultaneously…

This. This is why I want my students to read BOTH.

(Source: aisle7, via moondrifter)

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“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
— Helmholtz in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

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