In both Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, the authors critique how technology and entertainment affect society. Huxley shows a future where pleasure and technology make life shallow. Postman warns that too much entertainment and trivial information can harm critical thinking. Both of the books remind us to think about how we use technology and media in our lives.
I think that the books have connections with our reality in different ways, in Huxley’s world they are based on pleasure, now a days we want to do everything as simpler and faster as we can, the less we think the better, we base our decisions on temporal pressure or satisfaction. In Postman’s book, we can relate on how TV and phones have affected our ways of learning, we can’t focus on things that are “boring” because we are used to the instant pleasure of scrolling and having all the information we want when we want. Both books have the same purpose just with different ways of developing it.