TY - JOUR T1 - Are we too narcissistic? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 204 LP - 204 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X684589 VL - 65 IS - 633 AU - Peter Aird Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/633/204.abstract N2 - In the preface to his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman compares the concerns of Orwell in 1984 with those of Huxley in Brave New World. He writes: ‘Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture’.1Writing in 1985, long before the advent of Facebook and Twitter supported his view that … ER -