Orwell

“If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy.” This is how George Orwell’s reading assignment could be summarized. In a brilliant manner, Orwell explained the danger of the utilization of the English language, how the most horrible crime could be “translated” as the elimination of an enemy of the democracy. Words could be used and abused until that they lose their credibility. My question to him is that he’s complaining against his own world. He is an author, he is a writer, he makes up those rules that we, readers, have to follow. He is “one of them”! Why should we trust him now? Yes, he raises the problem, and he is in a good position to do so, but still. It is like Goebels warning us about the propaganda: he invented it, but I don’t think anyone will trust him.