tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post403171991435718217..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: No Statue for Orwell at the Ministry of Truth Anastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-8314003970880583552012-08-28T16:27:53.943-07:002012-08-28T16:27:53.943-07:00Seymour, I got an email which I've yet to resp...Seymour, I got an email which I've yet to respond to. Thank you so much for taking the trouble! <br /><br />Your final point, that on Orwell and the upper classes, is something I touch on in relation to his own experience at prep school. The article is headed <i>Homage to Orwell</i>. Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-26489928572668143992012-08-28T16:21:58.574-07:002012-08-28T16:21:58.574-07:00And I got in touch with the TD administrator (I al...And I got in touch with the TD administrator (I always think that word itself sounds Orwellian!) about your not being able to log into the forum. He should be in touch. If you'd like to respond to the points I made in that thread, that'd be great. Otherwise I'll look forward to your post on BrooWaha.<br /><br />Orwell is a fascinating character. Aside from the utopian belief in Socialism which I wrote about on the forum, it's difficult to find anything that he was wrong about. He seems to have combined great intelligence, imagination and patriotism with common sense, which is probably even more important than intelligence, and exactly what our elites have lacked since WW2.<br /><br />My only other "doubt" about Orwell would be his view of the upper classes; I like to believe that they were admirable, honourable, gentlemen, etc., but both Orwell and Enoch Powell thought they could not be trusted. And maybe they were right: they did take us into the EU and start mass immigration.Seymour Clufleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18346292043731203341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-11326518232584316932012-08-28T15:59:30.291-07:002012-08-28T15:59:30.291-07:00Seymour, I've now submitted an article on Orwe...Seymour, I've now submitted an article on Orwell to <i>BrooWaha</i>. I'll let you know when it's published. Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-81237120680670400402012-08-27T15:32:59.466-07:002012-08-27T15:32:59.466-07:00I do, I do. :-)I do, I do. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-65251075447226393522012-08-27T15:32:37.158-07:002012-08-27T15:32:37.158-07:00Calvin, that would be even better than Gramsci! Calvin, that would be even better than Gramsci! Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-30310024463842442782012-08-27T15:31:36.182-07:002012-08-27T15:31:36.182-07:00Seymour, I'm so glad we agree! I wanted to po...Seymour, I'm so glad we agree! I wanted to post a comment on the TH site but I've forgotten my password. I tried password recovery but I'm told that my email is not recognised. Arrrgh! Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-19965179000718011732012-08-27T15:25:32.006-07:002012-08-27T15:25:32.006-07:00Yes, Joe, it was. Yes, Joe, it was. Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-84870418806497227502012-08-27T11:55:35.819-07:002012-08-27T11:55:35.819-07:00Give Orwell his due.Give Orwell his due.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-53170767823298724332012-08-26T21:16:51.084-07:002012-08-26T21:16:51.084-07:00I don't think the BBC deserves to be graced wi...I don't think the BBC deserves to be graced with a statue of Orwell (how glad I am his pen name allows me not to have to write his real one!). Also, I'm not sure Orwell would be pleased to spend eternity in close proximity to an institution he clearly despised.<br /><br />Instead, why not install a giant effigy of a swine in a top hat watching Big Brother on TV in front of Broadcasting House, and a portrait bust of Orwell at the British Library?Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-67659302711140940062012-08-26T19:27:28.084-07:002012-08-26T19:27:28.084-07:00We are as one, Ana.
Last year I wrote a brief art...We are as one, Ana.<br /><br />Last year I wrote a brief article describing why I thought Orwell was on a right-ward journey throughout his life and died before he could complete it.<br /><br />http://forum.theodoredalrymple.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=59<br /><br />In response to the statue nonsense, I wrote a new post. It's the very latest one in the thread, and it goes into more detail, analysing one of his essays from 1947.<br /><br />You're right, of course, that apparatchiks like Gavin Thompson have far more to fear from Orwell's shadow than almost anyone on the right these days. The old Left, which I respect insofar as it was sincere, has been utterly betrayed by the Blairite/BBC variety.<br /><br />I am convinced that, were Orwell alive today, he would be the staunchest conservative in journalism. Can you imagine him going in for multiculturalism, or welfareism, or feminism, or even vegetarianism? Not a bit of it. He'd be even more staunchly conservative than you or me - because he KNEW old England; we can only guess at it.<br /><br />Not to end on too downbeat a note!Seymour Clufleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18346292043731203341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-7548332234398889572012-08-26T18:53:24.393-07:002012-08-26T18:53:24.393-07:00The BBC's full of the sort of fascists who con...The BBC's full of the sort of fascists who condemn Hitler but refuse to condemn his partner in crime, Stalin. Orwell saw thir moral equivalency, and <em>that's</em> his crime.Joe Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13813771610543530480noreply@blogger.com