In Aldous Huxley's future, everyone's happ Quote, you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy. They get what they want and they never THEY NEVER WANT WHAT THEY CAN'T GET. THEY'RE WELL OFF, THEY'RE SAFE, THEY'RE NEVER ILL, THEY'RE NOT AFRAID OF DEATH, THEY'RE BLISSFULLY IGNORANT OF PASSION AND OLD AGE, THEY'RE PLAGUED WITH NO MOTHERS OR FATHERS, THEY'VE GOT NO WIVES OR CHILDREN OR LOVERS TO FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT, END quote. In Aldous Huxley's future, even if yo ...

What happens when the dystopian future imagined by George Orwell in the 1940s shows up in real life? The new documentary Orwell 2 plus 2 equals 5 attempts to answer that question. The film is directed by Raul Peek and produced by the acclaimed Alex Gibney and it premiered at the Can Film Festival this May. The audience was visibly shaken. LA Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg writes, quote, "The crowd reacted with the startled tension of a horror scraping screening, gasps, murmurss, a few cries before final ...

An engaging book by Adam Szetela argues that publishing has become Orwellian. The world is not yet the Oceania of George Orwell’s “1984”, but it is not good https://t.co/9YYe5Zkd8u ...