Dec 16, 2025
girl help they're biting my ass for saying orwell's works have some degree of value
#nuance nuance yes of course. you can't fully ignore the context around an author#but i do believe some of the reading is. for lack of a better word ''too woke'' yk#your average highschooler picking up 1984 in class doesn't know orwell hated the ussr specifically#they're gonna learn a thing or two about authoritarian regimes which is gonna be important#also like. easterners exist. i feel like people forget that#we're real#our parents witnessed the ussr some of us still caught the aftershocks of it#orwell was pretty spot on if what he sought to reproduce was the ussr specifically#and yk how that fell? the proles#''if there is hope it lies with the proles'' and all that. idk like maybe he WAS rabidly against communism#but your average joe reading that is gonna get that the proletariat does indeed have power. bc we see that in the irl analogue#it may be a biased reading but i've discussed orwell with plenty of people from here and THAT'S the reading they got#not disdain for the proletariat#same with animal farm. sorry it reads like straight propaganda to you but no. actually. that is how authoritarian communism formed here#i am a socialist i am anti state i am not a lib. okay. before you start pointing fingers#but one must admit that ''all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'' is EXACTLY how we got a dictatorship last tim#and new politicians are trying to pull dictator shit today#i would much rather a kid pick up orwell than go fully unaware of anything to do with authoritarianism#not everyone is as enlightened as a political side of tumblr user. the average person is dumb#the state wants you dumb! it wants you ignorant and distracted! that is by design!#and guess who- even in his terribleness- wrote about that very simply and succinctly in a way kids can get it!#fucking orwell!