7/2/2023 0 Comments Orwell and politicsI have been annoyed by this for a long time but I couldn’t really find the words to express what bothered me about it. I get very exasperated by political discourse and sometimes humanities academia as well because it often feels like people are using big words and buzzwords to sound smart while they say a whole lot of nothing or simply repeat the talking points of whichever group they consider themselves to be a part of. So of course I had to read his essay that is explicitly about politics. But reading that book, combined with taking a government class that same year and the subsequent upheaval of 2020 led me to become very interested in it. I did not know of any politicians besides Trump and Obama and a few others on my peripheral vision and I had zero opinions on them. I partially credit George Orwell with originally getting me into politics.īefore I read 1984 when I was 15 I had absolutely no interest in anything political. (You can read “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell for free here) My Thoughts Title: “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell manages to articulate why people using political buzzword salad is so annoying in one essay.
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