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<blockquote data-quote="Thebrownblob" data-source="post: 6087829" data-attributes="member: 60485"><p>I can enjoy George Orwell literary work while understanding the man George Orwell was a complete fool in his own life. Same with Chris Hedges. </p><p></p><p>“George Orwell was on the side of pacifism in the late 1930s, but in the 1940s he felt that to be a pacifist was to be on the side of Hitler. He placed a famously large premium on truth, though he also felt that lies were justifiable for political ends (as his diaries make clear, he was certainly prepared to spread false information for the BBC during the Second World War). If this was hypocritical, then even his views on hypocrisy were two-faced: it was politically benign, but it was also vicious.”</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://blog.oup.com/2018/10/orwells-doublethink/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thebrownblob, post: 6087829, member: 60485"] I can enjoy George Orwell literary work while understanding the man George Orwell was a complete fool in his own life. Same with Chris Hedges. “George Orwell was on the side of pacifism in the late 1930s, but in the 1940s he felt that to be a pacifist was to be on the side of Hitler. He placed a famously large premium on truth, though he also felt that lies were justifiable for political ends (as his diaries make clear, he was certainly prepared to spread false information for the BBC during the Second World War). If this was hypocritical, then even his views on hypocrisy were two-faced: it was politically benign, but it was also vicious.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://blog.oup.com/2018/10/orwells-doublethink/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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