A do-it-yourself dystopia
Subtitle: the Americanization of big brother
By: Steven Carter.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Influence.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Dystopias in literature.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- English influences.; Dystopias.; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Description: "Almost everyone agrees that the absence of free choice in an Orwellian oligarchy is the worst of all possible worlds. But what happens when the situation is reversed? What happens, that is, when so many trivial and meaningless choices inundate a culture like our own that the principle of freedom itself becomes devalued, much as the value of hard currency is threatened when counterfeit money floods an economy?

In A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia: The Americanization of Big Brother, Steven Carter addresses this and many other issues in a wide-ranging search for hiddden oligarchies of the American self."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and index.