Will We Drown In a Sea of Insidious Pleasures?

Gherald highlighted a great graphic illustration comparison of the different kinds of dystopias* envisioned by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.
I've always found Huxley's formulation more compelling.

Orwell's vision is scary, to be sure, but I've always felt that civilization will be ultimately undone not by a nefarious top-down neo-communist 1984 construct but rather an insidious, astroturfed, pleasant-seeming, corporate-backed evisceration of passion, engagement and civic participation.

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* - dystopiae?