Category: walter kirn

People Giving Up Their Thinking During Pandemic in an Emerging Dystopia: Novelist Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn, a novelist, essayist, and journalist, has witnessed individuals give up reason to obey authority figures’ COVID-19 guidelines and mandates, he says, pushing us to further resemble a dystopian society. Dystopian societies are often characterized by government and technological control, loss of individualism, and people mainly being concerned with survival. “We’re told it’s self-interest…


Walter Kirn: The Emerging Dystopia, a Combination of Orwellian Tyranny and Huxleian Self-Indulgence

“We sit squarely in the middle of an absurdist drama.” Two years into this pandemic, we are living in a new world. And increasingly, we are seeing, perhaps, an emerging cocktail of tyranny that combines an Orwellian tyranny with the self-indulgence and passive obedience described in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” says author, journalist, and…