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The book's title is a nod to the Roger Waters album/song that deals with the same theme.

The book predates the song and album by about 7 years, so the album name references the book. Postman even mentioned the fact in his 1995 book "The end of education"

> "Postman even mentioned the fact in his 1995 book "The end of education""

Quote from Postman according to wikipedia[0]:

"the level of sensibility required to appreciate the music of Roger Waters is both different and lower than what is required to appreciate, let us say, a Chopin étude."

Ouch.

I actually got the album when it came out, and was roughly aware of the concept and the book from reviews in the music press. Had I known that it was comparing Orwell and Huxley I'd have definitely made the effort to read more. But this was before the internet so it wasn't easy (you had to do things like going to a public library), so technological progress is not all downside.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Thank you. I was mislead by the date on the post and did not know the book was older. TIL.

I think it’s the other way around — the book is from ~ 1985 while the Roger Waters albums is ~ 1992.

Thank you, my bad, you are right, as the other sibling comment.

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