In the introduction to Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state violence.

Thanks for the reminder to read this.

It's incidentally one of the explanations for the Fermi paradox.

"Alien species may isolate themselves in virtual worlds"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...