(11.7.2018)

Postman‘s key point was that Big Brother didn‘t need to bother watching John Doe or controlling him, because John Doe probably was already willing to be controlled by forces that rendered him harmless to Big Brother. Postman argued that Aldous Huxley‘s Brave New World was more prescient than Orwell‘s 1984, because in his book Huxley portrayed a citizenry perfectly willing to give up its most sacred possessions for trivial things.