# Huxley or Orwell? **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409 "2021-09-29T18:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beherenow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beherenow/32/125309_2.png) [@beherenow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beherenow)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/1 "2021-09-29T18:53:19Z")
![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/9/7/597cee021c9a7852a6143e530e3400691da825d6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Soren\_Indah\_Raw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/soren_indah_raw/32/143121_2.png) [@Soren\_Indah\_Raw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Soren_Indah_Raw)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/2 "2021-09-29T19:06:46Z")
Huxley for sure. (those little white squares do tend to lend a lot in the way of clarity though dont they :wink: ---
**Author:** ![TheThrowingGnome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thethrowinggnome/32/14231_2.png) [@TheThrowingGnome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheThrowingGnome)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/3 "2021-09-29T21:22:00Z")
Huxley My Brave New World book report in 9th grade was one of my favorite assignments in all of my public schooling. ---
**Author:** ![sloegoe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sloegoe/32/804_2.png) [@sloegoe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sloegoe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/4 "2021-09-29T22:02:29Z")
I pick Orwell 1984 even more relevant now than when it came out. ---
**Author:** ![yoyo\_cubicle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyo_cubicle/32/691750_2.png) [@yoyo\_cubicle](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo_cubicle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/5 "2021-09-29T22:24:00Z")
Both ---
**Author:** ![Ne0phy73](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ne0phy73/32/163412_2.png) [@Ne0phy73](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ne0phy73)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/6 "2021-09-30T19:26:51Z")
I’m curious now… Neil Postman said that the world was better reflected by Huxley. But the end of this cartoon says his book is about both being wrong… Someone read his book? ---
**Author:** ![beherenow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beherenow/32/125309_2.png) [@beherenow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beherenow)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/7 "2021-10-01T16:56:26Z")
“A book about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.” is at the end of the cartoon. I have not read the book. Like the meme with the girl says, ‘why not both’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ne0phy73](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ne0phy73/32/163412_2.png) [@Ne0phy73](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ne0phy73)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/8 "2021-10-01T17:40:14Z")
Oww… So I read it wrong… that’s it, Huxley view on his book, as he had stated somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/9 "2021-10-01T22:12:06Z")
On any given day it could be one or the other. On the one hand we have a people who believe telling the same lie over and over will convince people it is true. The next day someone changes the subject to distract us from the truth… ---
**Author:** ![\_void](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/_void/32/179426_2.png) [@\_void](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_void)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/10 "2021-10-01T22:24:53Z")
Eugene Zamyatin “We” ---
**Author:** ![yoyo7](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyo7/32/140308_2.png) [@yoyo7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo7)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/11 "2021-10-01T22:51:48Z")
This was a cool post. Thanks for sharing 😅 never realized how right but opposite both of them are ---
**Author:** ![Pinktweetybird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Pinktweetybird](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pinktweetybird)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/huxley-or-orwell/345409/12 "2021-10-01T23:07:38Z")
Both are fantastic! Huxley if I had to pick. Doors of Perception shaped a part of me. Thanks for the share