Failing to distinguish between real life and virtual reality

Trump’s election has continued a trend in the US of dumbing down political life that has pushed the country down a perilous path, writes Nina Khrushcheva.

‘WHAT we love will ruin us,’ predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932. In Brave New World, he described a human race that, by 2540, has been destroyed by ignorance, a lust for constant entertainment, the dominance of technology, and an overabundance of material goods.

With Donald Trump’s recent election as president, the US seems to be fulfilling Huxley’s prediction more than 500 years ahead of schedule.