Orwell is worried that what we hate will destroy us, while Huxley is worried that our culture will become a vulgar culture full of sensory stimuli, desires and random games, and we will be destroyed by what we love.
? Neil Pozmann is a world-renowned media culture researcher and critic. He has been teaching at new york University before his death, and initiated the major of media ecology.
? In "Entertainment to Death", Pozmann pointed out that all public discourse appeared in the form of entertainment and became a cultural spirit.
our politics, religion, news, sports, education and business are all willing to be subservient to entertainment, and as a result, we have become a species of entertainment to death.
this is a wonderful, powerful, important and irrefutable indictment. We are being wrapped in all kinds of information and enjoying convenience. We are in the comfort zone of entertainment and enjoying the pleasure brought by entertainment.
Today, with the proliferation of media information, we may feel anxious, even as Huxley said in Brave New World: "We don't know why we laugh and why we stop thinking."