Postman: the final quote (honest)

In the Huxleyan prophecy [Postman's central thesis is that Orwell's warnings may have come true in Russia, but in the west it's Huxley's] Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice.  We watch him by ours.

...what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard?  Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements?

For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

p160&161&168