Admittedly, what made Orwell great was, in part, his thoroughgoing commitment to adversarial thinking. So maybe I just
@wilbanks Love Orwell, but I've always disliked that. Zero-sum, adversarial-only thinking.
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grin, and regard it as part of the price one pays for such a great essayist.
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It occurs to me that many great essayists were great, in part, because of their monomaniacal devotion to some idea. Nearly always
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produces some silly side effects. But it also means they distill out some particularly pure vision, which is often clarifying
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