As pointed out by someone I know very well, who works in the television/media industry-he has spent the last 25 years making people stupid. And the more successful he is at it, the less likely it is that people will ever turn the screens off...
To me it looks like a both-and, not an either-or. Probably it looks more like one or the other to any one of us according to our socio-economic status, our nation state, our local and birth cultures, plus any of the myriad ways we might vary from some imagined norm genetically or by time and chance. Welcome to Huxlorwell.
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This cartoon is great! Scary, but great.
As pointed out by someone I know very well, who works in the television/media industry-he has spent the last 25 years making people stupid. And the more successful he is at it, the less likely it is that people will ever turn the screens off...
To me it looks like a both-and, not an either-or. Probably it looks more like one or the other to any one of us according to our socio-economic status, our nation state, our local and birth cultures, plus any of the myriad ways we might vary from some imagined norm genetically or by time and chance. Welcome to Huxlorwell.
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