/lit/ - Literature

The established political order and well-established ideological boundaries are being transgressed: the paradigm of Left-Right duality is becoming a quaint relic of the Tennis Court Oath found only in the grey letters of history books (both parties are propping each other up by their rigor mortis, as Peter Hitchens once quipped) as the more irreconcilable duality of Global-Local supplanted. The local grown food of liberals will become the local nationalist squadron; the the global openness of the left becomes the latest tool to expedite the accumulation of capital and ultimate fusion of private and public goods. The media is controlled by an elite that delimits the very nature of truth and forces inorganic words and thus inorganic thoughts into the language. Sounds like 1984 to me. It was a warning, not an instruction manual!

So I just finished The Road to Wigan Pier per recommendation of Dr. Peterson and wow is it a classic. I feel like it's revolutionary, thrilling, pungent and well-writed. Any other books by Sir Orwell to read?

The political landscape is radically shifting the ancient divides of Left and Right are giving way to the ultimately more irreconcilable polarity of Local and Global; the now locally grown food of Leftist bourgeoise families will morph into the erstwhile Right "local" nationalism of new jingoist nation-states; the global openness of the Left will be exploited for the sake of erstwhile Right tools of capitalistic accumulation of wealth. As if this weren't enough, the balance of power lies the hands of an elite who control and operate the media and delimit the boundaries of what we all consider to be true and false. New concepts are inorganically forced into language by sinister groups of slavish clients. Now all of this seems to remind me of one famous British author: George Orwell. What is your favorite novel by Orwell? Mine is Nineteen Eighty Four.

So, I've read 1984 and Animal Farm. Where to go next on Orwell's books?
I was considering reading his Catalonia stuff. Is it any good?
Also, is it true that his early texts where very left leaning and he abandoned that ideology later?