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“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.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley
@andrewg
Very good comment and sad that nobody listened to your father.
I predicted / feared this outcome and gave an alternative dynamic solution to it in 1991. unifiedscience.blogspot.com
At the time I thought that giving a straight forward logical explanation was enough. Since then I have learned 4 hard lessons from that. 1. People prefer something that give a new twist to their present understanding. 2. People have a natural conservative reaction to all radically new, which in most cases is good. 3. new understanding give you difficulties with your social group. 4. scientists have been learned a specific way of thinking and understanding and have built their social position on that - don't rock the boat!
@SHBasse to clarify, it wasn’t my dad, it was the dad of the person who wrote the article I quote.