Negative Space: Aldous Huxley
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Amusing Ourselves to Death is a disjointed effort to prove that the speed of modern communications is killing us, but it ignores basic features of modern communications, such as the ability of both sides to respond; and to the extent that modern communications empowers the individual he sees that as an evil, preferring the bundling of individuals by self-appointed elites as in the age of Tammany Hall.
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- Review: Brave New World
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Huxley’s Brave New World uses drugs to do what we use social media and virtual reality for. It’s a brilliant examination of what life looks like when we have everything we think we want, and nothing that we need. And the lengths we’ll go to, to avoid responsibility for our lives.
