“I think Brave New World is the best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient. Huxley was writing in the early 1930’s with Stalin and Hitler around, but what he was envisioning was our present.
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Brave New World: Beware the Philosopher
Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading with tags 1984, Aldous Huxley, Artificial intelligence, Brave New World, George Orwell, Yuval Noah Harari on December 26, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
Adam Goodes: The Other Side
Posted in Journalism, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags 1984, Adam Goodes, AFL, Australian of the Year, Bill Shorten, Football, George Orwell, Indigenous, racism, Stalin, Tony Abbott on August 2, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Mr Boyle,
Good sir, I have noticed your support for Adam Goodes via Facebook recently and thought I might offer my perspective.
I have not attended an AFL match this year, but if I did attend a Sydney match and Adam Goodes was playing I would most certainly ‘boo’ him. Here’s why: Continue reading
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Things I Don’t Want to Know
Posted in Fiction, Reading, Real Men with tags ANC, angel, apartheid, Catcher in the Rye, Charlie Bukowski, Deborah Levy, feminist, George Orwell, Holden Caulfield, J.D. Salinger, Jacob, political, South Africa, Theme Park At Its Darkest, Why I write on April 13, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy does not, judging from the blurb on the back, sound like the sort of book I’d like to read.
‘…it is feminist and political while being an inspiring act of writing.’
Whenever a book is ‘feminist and political’, it’s like being hit over the head with a length of dowel; irritating and painful, but not hard enough to knock you out – or into unconsciousness so you don’t have to listen anymore. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 