Neil Postman and Amusing Ourselves To Death (comic version). Blog about it. Do you agree? How do you see it around you?

 Both Orwell and Huxley raise issues that are present in our world today. The world is threatened by restricted or denial of information flow and too much information. 

Orwell`s fear of those who would ban books is something that should concern us especially in undemocratic regimes that do not accept criticisms. Such is the case in Uganda where in December 2021, a PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelist) award winner Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was arrested following a tweet criticizing President Museveni and his son Muhozi. Kakwenza was also arrested in 2020 for authoring a book titled The Greedy Barbarian.

Governments conceal information from citizens in various ways for reasons such as national security, spending a lot of taxpayers' money on classified expenditures yet taxpayers are exploited in taxation without accountability. Orwell was also right about us becoming a captive culture, a small percentage of the population that owns resources controls the masses and such are corporations like Bill gates Foundations, Amazon`s Jezz Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and others. These indirectly dictate how governments run and the economy.

On the other hand, Huxley too does raise pertinent issues that are a threat to human freedom and existence. Huxley's fear that those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and Egotism stands true because there is a lot of information overload, information explosion, or infobesity. All this information is controlled by wealthy corporations that control our lives by asking our biodata and using algorithms to decide the information we can consume based on our history searches. In this way, we are denied some information that may be vital.