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Thursday 27 November 2008

So this is a Brave New World that is evolving. And of course Aldous Huxley, who wrote a book by that title in 1933 foresaw our current dilemma. Huxley said that the future would not be the boot of George Orwell’s Big Brother, but rather a place where basically we would take our Soma everyday, which was a pill that was a kind of combination Viagra and Prozac and we would go to the “feelies” which would be movies that the chairs moved and we would have this whole world where we’re basically entertained to death. And we would be so entertained that we would not pay attention to the politics of the time. And I would argue that that’s exactly what has happened. We are entertaining ourselves in a way that we have creted a fantasy world where anyone can be The American Idol and Donald Trump can put himself forward as one of the greatest business men in the world even though he has gone bankrupt three times or that George Bush can pretend he is a fighter jockey and declare Mission Accomplished. And this is not just a world for adults. If you’re an eight year old, you can go buy the Bling-Bling Barbie doll and pretend you are a hooker in Vegas and Ken is your Pimp. America 3.0

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