So what we have been talking about in class relates more of how Huxley was saying that what we love will eventually ruin us. People love to watch reality t.v. but it keeps making us more and more apathetic. This is true in a way as well as Orwell's point that what we hate will ruin us. I think that if things continue the way they are going either one is possible, which is kinda scary but true. No one wants to talk about the things that are really important in our society and other countries. Plus everyone wants to sit in front of a computer or t.v all day and watch trash that shouldn't even be on t.v since all it is doing is teaching the youngest generation that all morals can just be thrown out of the window.
The author had a good idea posting this as a web comic instead of an article or something like that. The web comic allows more people to understand exactly what it is the author is writing about by having writing and pictures to help the reader along. It also makes more people likely to read it. Most people don't enjoy reading long articles on the Internet, at least I know that I don't, but web comics are short and are more eye catching that some black page with black and white words all over it.
I appreciated what you said about why people are more likely to read a web comic as opposed to an article -- even if the article was to say the same thing. I also agree with you when you said that "no one wants to talk about the things that are really important in our society and other countries."
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