The Braver, Newer world of ours

In a recent thread on reddit about how the perceived changes in the world after serving a long sentence in a penitentiary, a person wrote

14 years here. It's not so much the changes as it is your view of and insight into human behavior. You can see human behavior with such clarity, having learned to read people for survival.

Having said that, the most shocking thing I experienced was people's unwillingness to look at themselves and refusal to look at reality. People out here have the luxury of building constructs that permit themselves to evade critical analysis of their own lives and failures. They refuse to accept government oppression for what it is, finding solace in television and other alternate forms of reality. It is very matrix-like out here.

The direction of that discourse was obvious in taking a Orwellian vs Huxleyan debate, to which someone else posted a comic that very succinctly compared the both and ended with a prevision that Huxley is probably right.