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Ze's quoting Brave New World and in a vaguish way calling all of us readers stunted proletariats from Huxley's dystopia.
Well I was quoting Huxley (With the "Epsilons" and the "Soma" and replacing religous thought with consumerist games of ever increasing complexity and investment) but I wasn't calling anyone stunted proletariats. It was an irreverent attempt at dry humour.
I do believe that Huxley's book is a valid warning though: Crass consumerism and consumption is being forced upon us at an alarming rate. For fuck's sake: DVD's are being advertised as "the Perfect Easter Gift."
EASTER GIFT! Chocolates were detracting from the religious meaning of the holiday in the first place, now GIFTS?!? (all this from a decidedly non-X-Tian.)
In the movie Zeitgeist, an arguement is made that Huxley wasn't writing a warning, but actually laughing in the face of the proles about the coming New World Order... but that's mere conspiracy... Won't go there...
Santa trumps Christ in the eyes of children everywhere. When people have problems they dont go to a church, they go shopping.
And as to the death of Christianity, I see it hapening more as a result of Huxley's Government approved and distributed Designer Drugs and Consumerism model rather than a great amalgamation into some Orange-Catholic-Zensunni religion ála Frank Herbert. |
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