Politics of nice 15/6/2008
The great writer and thinker proven correct again.
George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, nature-cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England’.
Nicer than his straw-liberals, maybe.
But since his definition of “liberal” is “anyone who’s a selfish jerk”, that’s not all that surprising.
There is a gem in nearly everything Orwell wrote. I don’t know what he would make of the left nowdays but I could guess.