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Apocryphon
on Nov 30, 2020
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The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson (1981)
It isn't; a society can be dominated by emphasizing values of consumer-driven hedonism or social jockeying within castes (as in Brave New World) over totalitarian war and hatred (as in 1984), and still fall short of its aspirations.
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