Orwell's Secret
George Orwell's writings are usually considered obvious gloom and doom. This article will try to explain the useful secret in his work.
For a person lost in current events, a good place to start understanding modern politics is in the movies "1984" and "Lord of the Flies", both viewable free on YouTube.
Lord of the Flies [Wikipedia] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nIJ1630By8
1984 [Wikipedia] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE
Some quotes until this page is completed.
Here is an Orwellian themed article to read in the meantime. http://www.crimefilenews.com/2012/04/america-has-turned-into-orwellian.html
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
