While so many were watching 1984 approach and being thankful for the fact that in their eyes our society was nothing like that described in Orwell's 1984, that they missed some of the ideas from Huxley's Brave New World. Huxley's Brave New World is more relevant today than Orwell's 1984. According to Postman, a contemporary social critic, "Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture". A trivial culture in the sense of a more superficial society and a lack of deep and meaningful elements. We have not been captivated by culture but more so willingly oppressed. Our lives seem to revolve around our social lives and lack in meaning. People are willingly spending many hours a week just sitting in front of the television. Although Huxley's ideas have not come true to such extreme measures as they did in his book our meager desires have led us to the trivial lifestyle Huxley had feared. Just as Huxley had feared people did not hate the oppression but learned to love it. .
People of today have fulfilled many of Postman's fears. Peoples" lives have become trivial, consisting of superficial and unmeaningful elements. The lives of children do not consist of a desire to learn but a desire to be "cool". The people of today pay money to go to watch movies based on superficial ideas and lacking in a solid theme. We have on our own, in a way, filled our lives with the equivalents of the feelies, orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. The television we watch has become even worse than it was a few years ago. Shows like Cat-Dog lack any meaningful basis the blatant humor takes away any need to think. .
At no point in history have we needed a "Big Brother" in the US but a form of "Big Brother" may exist in our media and education. Our media has taught us how to feel and to love feeling that way and has a stronghold on our emotions.