One of the great things about Orwell is that he is not a mere armchair theorist; and this is an example of his attention to (and anger at) a very practical outworking of class and financial inequality.
I really feel a kinship with Orwell. I'm working class, I've been homeless and moved to cities in a state of profound poverty, I volunteered to serve as an infantryman, I was a leftist and am now mostly anti-totalitarian... and I really feel that our writing styles are similar.
Our intellectual kinship might be pure imagination on my part, but I feel it all the same.
One of the great things about Orwell is that he is not a mere armchair theorist; and this is an example of his attention to (and anger at) a very practical outworking of class and financial inequality.
The more things change the more they remain the same. When will we ever learn.
I really feel a kinship with Orwell. I'm working class, I've been homeless and moved to cities in a state of profound poverty, I volunteered to serve as an infantryman, I was a leftist and am now mostly anti-totalitarian... and I really feel that our writing styles are similar.
Our intellectual kinship might be pure imagination on my part, but I feel it all the same.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/two-weeks-in