/lit/ - Literature

Orwell would support the Mesopotamian war.

I like him so much precisely because he wasn't a genius.

>>1779159

Orwell's essays are definitely literature.

For me it's his essays more than his fiction which show his real genius.

Feminists often go too far and ends up damaging it's own cause. The general differences between men and women go beyond the existence of a penis.

I'm not saying women can't be great thinkers, I'm just saying nature pushes us in different ways. For some people genes are quite deterministic.

To say otherwise is just ideological nonsense. Wait until extensive biogenetics comes along and we can bend nature to our ideological fantasies.

>>1731508

>implying Orwell couldn't be more relevant today, with totalitarian regimes being toppled all across north africa and the middle east
>implying Russia and China aren't next
>implying Huxley didn't have some nice ideas but his predictions are fundamentally intangible and still hasn't occurred in the 80 tumultuous years since it was written
>implying you don't just prefer Huxley because he isn't sensationally popular like Orwell.

Orwell's essays and nonfiction are better than everything Huxley ever wrote.

Does anyone else feel that Orwell's fiction is too politicised to NOT be dangerously didactic?

I really like his fiction, but i've always felt it's his non-fiction for which he should be really esteemed for.