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A detailed and fascinating compare-and-contrast piece on the differences/similarities between Huxley’s Brave New World & Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and their relevance to today’s society. It’s by Margaret Atwood too, which is just perfect.
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“Buildings in the man-made landscape took on a new significance, psychological and sexual as well as purely practical. The Bauhaus first defined the multitude of ways in which the built environment affects the way we live.”
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“… what this furore shows is how much we are prepared to allow our behaviour to be dictated by our worst fears… It’s just another indication of how excessive risk-aversion is making us lock our doors to outsiders, literally and metaphorically.”
