Što čitate 4.

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Da, to je klasik, hvala na podsjećanju. Prije par godina nagonila sam mlađeg sina da pročita Otok, a meni je iz srednje škole u sjajnoj uspomeni ostala knjiga Vrijeme mora jednom stati. Baš bih mogla potražiti original.

Joj, da, kakva je ta knjiga? Htjela sam pročitati odn. poslušati onog Rusa koji je navodno inspirirao i Huxleyja i Orwella (roman "We"), ali su kritike za naratora bile toliko loše (da monotono čita) i sample je isto bio takav da sam odustala. Sad sam u fazi distopijskih romana, pa bi mi dobro došao neki break, neka utopija, da se ukaže svjetlo. Nakon čitanja tj. slušanja tih distopija sam pročitala sve na wikipediji o tim romanima, ovo mi je predobro i zapravo se slažem s tim:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."