Book to be still relevant

I'll just quote Neil Postman in "Distract yourself to death" (1985). The purpose is not to contrast Orwell and Huxley (who wrote two masterpieces), but to show how Huxley point is terribly relevant, and may still be long.

"Orwell (1984) warns us that we run the risk of being crushed by an external oppressive force. Huxley (Brave New World), in his vision, has no need to involve a Big Brother to explain that people will be deprived of their autonomy, their maturity, their history. He knows that people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that destroy their ability to think.

Orwell feared those who would ban books. Huxley feared that there is even more need to ban books because nobody would want to read.

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared that we we watered the point whether we are reduced to passivity and egoism.

Orwell feared that no hiding the truth. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of ​​trivialities.

Orwell feared that our culture is trapped. Huxley feared that our culture becomes trivial, only concerned with trifles.

For as Huxley remarked in Brave New World Return to the defenders of freedom and reason, which are always alert to oppose tyranny, "do not take account of this almost insatiable appetite of man for distractions. '"