Re:It needs more public-spirited pigs: TS Eliot's rejection ...
by labster on Monday May 30, 2016 @12:34AM
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Of course, both sides would be correct. That's why Orwell works so well as a logical razor. The question of government is always the degree to which the culture is controlled.
Orwell himself never really settled on an ideology, and were he American today I imagine he'd be deeply unsatisfied with all of our parties/candidates.
When it comes to applying its ideas more generally, the problem is that everyone wants to use it as ammunition against their ideological opponents. For example opponents of Trump might consider the strong emotions he stirs up comparable with the 2 minutes hate, while opponents to the progressive movements might consider the attempt to erase gendered pronouns from our language as a kind of Newspeak.