Reading Orwell's non-fiction has been quite eye-opening for me-It really drove home how much the modern world was a product of the Great War, and not a lot of the later stuff that tends to get credited.
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I also highly recommend his "Antisemitism in Britain", not only for its discussion of antisemitism, but of how a country can sweep its prejudices under the rug in order to keep up appearances. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/antisemitism-in-britain/ …pic.twitter.com/jTGisDw2QU
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"The servility with which the greater part of the English intelligentsia have swallowed and repeated Russian propaganda from 1941 onwards would be quite astounding if it were not that they have behaved similarly on several earlier occasions." ugh damn cowards
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