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depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The Year of the Sex Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He predicts a future where the high energy (hi-drives) types are dominating and exploiting the low energy (low-drive) types.
That is really bold until you consider that life already was that way in 1968, it was that way in 1868 as well as the Year 8.
Life, since the hunter-gatherer days, has always been a phenomena where the alpha types set the agenda and dominate the beta types.
He predicts a future where the high energy (hi-drives) types are dominating and exploiting the low energy (low-drive) types.
That is really bold until you consider that life already was that way in 1968, it was that way in 1868 as well as the Year 8.
Life, since the hunter-gatherer days, has always been a phenomena where the alpha types set the agenda and dominate the beta types.
Life was that way even before humans evolved.
So, daring prediction.....More of the same!
I completely agree. He predicts audiences will react with laughter and excitement to slaughter. That is kind of what happened in the Flavian Amphitheater in the year 80.
It was a thinly veiled spin on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. For the most part dystopian books, movies, etc. are more a reflection/critique of the times they were produced in versus being some sort of "prediction". Year of the Sex Olympics was more a critique of late 1960's Britain than it was any sort of prediction about the future.
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