Comments on: The Greatness of George Orwell https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-greatness-of-george-orwell/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Toddy Cat https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-greatness-of-george-orwell/comment-page-1/#comment-1678883 Toddy Cat Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:00:08 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36491#comment-1678883 Orwell was not an advocate of free love — quite the contrary, in fact. And if his personal life didn’t live up to his own standards, well, who does? Orwell had high standards, and tried to live up to them, and failed, but didn’t drop his standards. Where I come from, that’s called “Christianity”

]]> By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-greatness-of-george-orwell/comment-page-1/#comment-1676743 Alrenous Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:26:39 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36491#comment-1676743 “Orwell was simply expressing the national character better than we ourselves could have done.”

Including elite character, who were all like, “Oh yeah, that’s exactly where we’re going with this.”

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