Finished reading his essays.A big part of them just boils down to this:>If something doesn’t align with me and my ideology, it's bad. I am the supreme source of good and evil. He writes all these in a smug and rude way that it makes him really unlikeable.Him and Russell are pretty much same in this respect. I wonder are all social democrats like this?
>>25220150I like him. I don't understand your problem at all. I don't hear that tone in his writing whatsoever. My favorite essays are the ones he did on writing and English food
>>25220150Name an essayist who doesn't write like this.
>>25220150The main reason why I don't like his essay is that they just don't really contain much information. Maybe I am remembering it wrong, because is has been a while, but it mainly is normal knowledge about politics, sprinkled with some historical information stretched out. There isn't anything I remember from reading it, compared to other essays I have read (Kolakowski, de Benoist, Evola, Jonathan Bowden, ...). Most of them seem smug too, but maybe it is different, because they actually have interesting stuff to say. Most of Orwells essays is just too simplified and/or ordinary information to be said in a smug way, which may make it seem that much more unlikeable.
>>25220184Emerson
>>25220150>le smug>muh fee-feesokay but is he right or is he wrong, this isn't preschool
He fought for the republicans as volunteer during the Spanish Civil War and got to witness how retarded Stalinists, anarchists, and leftists are first hand I never understand why people treat this guy as some sort of this great skeptical prophet of state power when in real life he would be voting for a state labor party under the guides of being a “left wing nationalist”
>>25220376>He fought for the republicans as volunteer during the Spanish Civil War and got to witness how retarded Stalinists, anarchists, and leftists are first handyeah he went there to "witness" it because we now know he was a british glowie there to gather intelligence
>>25220150You can't think properly, you can't read properly.You're either here to defame the author of 1984 without having read a thing or you're an actual drooling retard with a lisp.
>>25220259De Benoist does come off as smug, thats why I refuse to read him
>>25220400>we now know he was a british glowie there to gather intelligenceWe know this from what exactly?
>>25222273Popular revisionist meme going around. All due to one essay written right after the war, after he walked around to see the devastation of the air raids. Got a little patriotic, a little soppy eyed. But who doesn't sometimes wish the dream image of a state were true from time to time? >>25220376The leftists fought bravely with all their might, but the Stalinists were told to attack them before Franco even returned. That's not retardation, anon, that's betrayal. >I never understand why people treat this guy1984 seems to be playing out right now, so he's as relevant to the 21st century as the 20th
>>25220150>If something doesn’t align with me and my ideology, it's bad. I am the supreme source of good and evil.
>>25220150I've never liked Orwell for this reason. He has an extremely narrow, extremely English, extremely utilitarian sensibility for what things are obviously right and what are obviously wrong.He has no taste, no sense of depth and no desire for transcendence, and holds anyone who does in contempt.This is why Aldous Huxley is infinitely better.
>>25220150Asimov's review of 1984 + the CIA memeing his books into schools dispelled any notion that Orwell was some kind of literary genius for me.
>>25220150bad paki! bad!
