This weeks discussion on the prompt about Orwell's thesis had sparked a great level of personal thought. I had always dismissed it as a silly concept simply put in place to inspire a dry novel whose sole destiny was to find its way onto the summer reading lists of "aspiring" high schoolers. However reading more about Orwell's theses, and its mysterious, "equally chilling" counterpart, Huxley's vision. A story depicting a world where rather than the pursuit and distribution of knowledge be controlled, knowledge is so readily available that it is simply drowned out in itself. It is seen as irrelevant and unneeded, as society would eventually find its way of making knowledge and its ever importance obsolete. What was most thought provoking about this prompt however, is how disturbingly true it feels. I myself can claim to be a guilty victim of overlooking the vast amount of knowledge in-front of me. I am constantly drawn away from learning by the skewed pyramid of personal importance that I and society have spent years to build in my head. And even me and those alike in our very distracted state of minds, are only one generation, with many destined to follow. So if this is the road society seems to be going down, is Huxley's vision our unfortunate end destination?
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