As Neil Postman compared the two novels, he contrasted and made excellent points such as, “what Orwell feared were those who would ban books.” Concluding that Orwell fears that not only books but, eventually everything, will have a negative connotation attached and we will grow to hate all things, and the world will be ruined. Where Huxley fears that, “there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be none who wanted to read one”. Fear such as that people will have an abundance of media and culture available to them, therefore things like books will become irrelevant. Malcolm Gladwell poses the idea in which Americans fought for so long for so much freedom that the foundation of our country becomes irrelevant. Everything brave Americans fought for has become less important to us. There’s nothing to fight for anymore. In the United States, the surplus of freedom has led the people to forget how they got here in the first place. Not only can we choose our religion, decide what type of school to attend as well as having countless rights, there’s also the ability to access anything and everything on the internet and use phones at nearly any location to call anyone around the world to arrange a meeting, an occasion or even a family outing. You would think that because of that access, strengthening bonds with other people by communication would have been used as an advantage. That was the intention to begin with, yet we have done the opposite. “The platforms of social media are built around weak ties” (Gladwell). The only thing we’ve created with this breakthrough of technology are these weak ties. We have so much access to anyone and everyone that we’ve slowly become less interested in getting to know them. Yet you might expect the opposite. Before technology, they survived and it seems now as if we couldn’t live without it. A lot of damage has been done to the generation who was born into technologically rich