| George Orwell 07:12 - Jun 16 with 754 views | RonaldStump |
The further a society drifts from the truth
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| George Orwell on 07:31 - Jun 16 with 730 views | felixstowe_jack |
He seems to have been proved right even if 30 years late.
The only acceptable truth is that uttered by the woke elite, all history has been rewritten, anyone who offers a different opion is deplatformed. | |
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| George Orwell on 08:07 - Jun 16 with 708 views | Gwyn737 |
| George Orwell on 07:31 - Jun 16 by felixstowe_jack |
He seems to have been proved right even if 30 years late.
The only acceptable truth is that uttered by the woke elite, all history has been rewritten, anyone who offers a different opion is deplatformed. |
The people who've been 'silenced' seem to be the ones who make the most noise. | | | |
| George Orwell on 08:54 - Jun 16 with 685 views | Boundy |
| George Orwell on 08:07 - Jun 16 by Gwyn737 |
The people who've been 'silenced' seem to be the ones who make the most noise. |
Perhaps its a sound that should be heard | |
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| George Orwell on 09:34 - Jun 16 with 665 views | Glossolalia |
Just re-read Down and Out in Paris and London. A really interesting insight into his mentality. It's funny that the criminals who spray-painted that Churchill 'was a racist', never seem to mention or be bothered by Orwell's antisemitism. 'Trust a snake before a Jew'.
This doesn't bother me, in case someone points out that I'm guilty selective faux-outrage. Different time. Pre-Holocaust.
As for 1984, it should be required reading - the similarities between Winston's job and the woke mob's incessant hounding and blood-lust for erasure is deeply worrying. Orwell would have hated it. |  | | |
| George Orwell on 09:42 - Jun 16 with 656 views | onehunglow |
| George Orwell on 09:34 - Jun 16 by Glossolalia |
Just re-read Down and Out in Paris and London. A really interesting insight into his mentality. It's funny that the criminals who spray-painted that Churchill 'was a racist', never seem to mention or be bothered by Orwell's antisemitism. 'Trust a snake before a Jew'.
This doesn't bother me, in case someone points out that I'm guilty selective faux-outrage. Different time. Pre-Holocaust.
As for 1984, it should be required reading - the similarities between Winston's job and the woke mob's incessant hounding and blood-lust for erasure is deeply worrying. Orwell would have hated it. |
Orwell one of the elect few to engage me enough to read a book.I have a notoriously short attention span. I'm not dumb by any means but I struggle to complete any book but Orwell in that book,Catalonia ,84 and the Aspidistra are ones I have completed. Animal Farm rightly seen as a classic in every way.
Lohengrin has cost me a small fortune in books he recommended to me but Ive yet to finish any of them.All heavy ,all full of content.
I blame the Beano | |
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| George Orwell on 09:50 - Jun 16 with 655 views | Glossolalia |
| George Orwell on 09:42 - Jun 16 by onehunglow |
Orwell one of the elect few to engage me enough to read a book.I have a notoriously short attention span. I'm not dumb by any means but I struggle to complete any book but Orwell in that book,Catalonia ,84 and the Aspidistra are ones I have completed. Animal Farm rightly seen as a classic in every way.
Lohengrin has cost me a small fortune in books he recommended to me but Ive yet to finish any of them.All heavy ,all full of content.
I blame the Beano |
I read Homage to Catalonia in a beautiful little village in Spain. Coffee and tortilla, badly-rolled cigarettes, looking at the mountain ranges he was holed up in. I find his prose strikes a perfect balance and isn't too heavy, even if the subject matter is.
Road to Wigan Pier next, then Shooting an Elephant.
Which was your favourite of what you've read, OHL? | | | |
| George Orwell on 10:05 - Jun 16 with 638 views | onehunglow |
| George Orwell on 09:50 - Jun 16 by Glossolalia |
I read Homage to Catalonia in a beautiful little village in Spain. Coffee and tortilla, badly-rolled cigarettes, looking at the mountain ranges he was holed up in. I find his prose strikes a perfect balance and isn't too heavy, even if the subject matter is.
Road to Wigan Pier next, then Shooting an Elephant.
Which was your favourite of what you've read, OHL? |
Possibly Wigan Pier as its a visceral description of true poverty in a northern town.
Many of our mums had a hard life;no wash machine,dishwasher,running hot water,disposable nappies and no day time TV whilst their iron nor even decent light music on the radio a the Light Programme was all they really had.
Chuck in scrubbing the front step and pavement and then to await a drunken husband who s spent his time quenching his thirst at the alehouse and demanding sex before passing out with it all.
Glory Days.
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| George Orwell on 10:08 - Jun 16 with 637 views | Joe_bradshaw |
Impossible to pigeonhole and claimed by both the left and the right. Sympathies left of centre and supported Labour in elections whilst hating communism and the hypocrisy of socialists.
Haven’t read them all but 1984 still resonates with its incredible foresight. |  |
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| George Orwell on 10:15 - Jun 16 with 630 views | onehunglow |
| George Orwell on 10:08 - Jun 16 by Joe_bradshaw |
Impossible to pigeonhole and claimed by both the left and the right. Sympathies left of centre and supported Labour in elections whilst hating communism and the hypocrisy of socialists.
Haven’t read them all but 1984 still resonates with its incredible foresight. |
Joe.
I feel very aligned to how Orwell viewed the world | |
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| George Orwell on 11:21 - Jun 16 with 591 views | Gwyn737 |
| George Orwell on 08:54 - Jun 16 by Boundy |
Perhaps its a sound that should be heard |
It's a minefield for sure.
Where's the cancel culture in this story for example:
IKEA have pulled their advertising becuase they say GB news doesn't match their values.
In response, Andrew Neil shares a story with his 1.1 million Twitter followers about the CEO of IKEA France that is 20 years old, critisising thier values.
He didn't seem to mind those values when IKEA were paying for advertising, mind. [Post edited 16 Jun 2021 11:26]
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| George Orwell on 12:35 - Jun 16 with 560 views | Lohengrin |
| George Orwell on 09:50 - Jun 16 by Glossolalia |
I read Homage to Catalonia in a beautiful little village in Spain. Coffee and tortilla, badly-rolled cigarettes, looking at the mountain ranges he was holed up in. I find his prose strikes a perfect balance and isn't too heavy, even if the subject matter is.
Road to Wigan Pier next, then Shooting an Elephant.
Which was your favourite of what you've read, OHL? |
We’ve had a few threads on Orwell over the years and I’ve recommended these anthologies of his journalism before, but in case you hadn’t come across them I’ll give another nod in their direction.
Wide-ranging and insightful: some of the pieces are as fresh and though-provoking today as they were seventy years ago.
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| George Orwell on 12:38 - Jun 16 with 555 views | onehunglow |
| George Orwell on 12:35 - Jun 16 by Lohengrin |
We’ve had a few threads on Orwell over the years and I’ve recommended these anthologies of his journalism before, but in case you hadn’t come across them I’ll give another nod in their direction.
Wide-ranging and insightful: some of the pieces are as fresh and though-provoking today as they were seventy years ago.
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Here come another debit to the OHL legacy | |
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| George Orwell on 12:43 - Jun 16 with 551 views | Lohengrin |
| George Orwell on 12:38 - Jun 16 by onehunglow |
Here come another debit to the OHL legacy |
They’d be available through your local library, mate.
There’s no need for anybody to shell out if they like the look of them. | |
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| George Orwell on 13:00 - Jun 16 with 544 views | onehunglow |
| George Orwell on 12:43 - Jun 16 by Lohengrin |
They’d be available through your local library, mate.
There’s no need for anybody to shell out if they like the look of them. |
It's a thought and a sweet one.
Ive not been to the library for years.
Last time we had sinister spinsters in situ to seek out those looking for a sleep | |
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