Brave News World

At after-dinner conversation tonight (Youngest Son is taking a course in writing screen plays) it occurred to us that Brave New World missed a bet.

The Ministry of Truth from 1984 changes all copies of newspapers so that the current party line has always been the party line, and unpersons never existed. But in a society as immersed in amusement as Brave New World, or the USA, one of the amusements can be the news, and only the trending news matters. What happened last year is essentially forgotten, except by people who don't matter.

UPDATE: Now that I think of it, isn't that a theme in Fahrenheit 451?