Orwell certainly missed a few things when it came to Elite Theory. Perhaps he thought he could secretly "wait out the storm" in the belly of the whale with Arthur Miller
In “Inside the Whale,” Orwell explained that he understood why Miller was happy to be a contemporary Jonah: “A storm that would sink all the battleships in the world would hardly reach you as an echo.” He also observed just how big the waves were at the time: “When Tropic of Cancer was published the Italians were marching into Abyssinia and Hitler’s concentration camps were already bulging… It did not seem to be a moment at which a novel of outstanding value was likely to be written about American dead-beats cadging drinks in the Latin Quarter.”
And yet that’s exactly what Miller produced with Tropic of Cancer—a novel that dispenses with all pretense and propaganda and presents subjective human experience in its purest form. Although Miller was inside the whale and Orwell was on the surface, they both told their readers exactly what they saw. A writer can do no more.
Orwell should have instead done what writers throughout pre-Modern history (except Machiavelli) were prone to do, bury their messages in esotericism (ala Leo Strauss)
"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses." - George Orwell
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – The Party (1984) “Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening.” – Donald Trump
"Ignorance is strength." The Party "I love the poorly educated." - Trump
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Living the nightmare, real time.
A guy whose fraudulent university was shut down is telling the Ivy League what to do.
A guy whose businesses went bankrupt multiple times is telling the Fed what to do.
A guy whose best friend was a child sex trafficker is telling the DOJ what to do.
That it’s all the same guy is pretty wild.
Orwell certainly missed a few things when it came to Elite Theory. Perhaps he thought he could secretly "wait out the storm" in the belly of the whale with Arthur Miller
In “Inside the Whale,” Orwell explained that he understood why Miller was happy to be a contemporary Jonah: “A storm that would sink all the battleships in the world would hardly reach you as an echo.” He also observed just how big the waves were at the time: “When Tropic of Cancer was published the Italians were marching into Abyssinia and Hitler’s concentration camps were already bulging… It did not seem to be a moment at which a novel of outstanding value was likely to be written about American dead-beats cadging drinks in the Latin Quarter.”
And yet that’s exactly what Miller produced with Tropic of Cancer—a novel that dispenses with all pretense and propaganda and presents subjective human experience in its purest form. Although Miller was inside the whale and Orwell was on the surface, they both told their readers exactly what they saw. A writer can do no more.
Orwell should have instead done what writers throughout pre-Modern history (except Machiavelli) were prone to do, bury their messages in esotericism (ala Leo Strauss)
And Htichens wrote 'Why Orwell Matters'. ECRASEZ L'INFAME
"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses." - George Orwell
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.” – The Party (1984)
“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening.” – Donald Trump
"Ignorance is strength." The Party
"I love the poorly educated." - Trump
Thankfully Orwell understood fascism and would never have followed Joe Con's advice.
Didn’t Straus say Machiavelli "seems to be a teacher of wickedness"? (No wonder Joe Con reveres him.)
And didn’t Orwell write, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others", indicating he understood and satirized elite theory?
And ignorance and delusion shall be considered wisdom and truth throughout America. So sayeth the Donald.
The historians are going to be busy for years trying to correct tRUMPs lies.
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