"As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
This book (1985) is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
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AI slop
I was unsure of this one at first, since despite the visual style it could have just been existing photos with a Snapchat-style filter put over it. However, Trump is furthest from the camera, then FDR, then Trump’s arm sprouting out of FDR’s chest. But slop-aganda needs to stop if people want any credibility for what they’re advocating for.