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- Title
LESSONS FROM BROTHER ORWELL.
- Authors
Rodden, John
- Abstract
This article presents a letter focusing on the lessons learned from George Orwell, a political writer and intellectual. Do not ride along with the intellectual herd. Refuse to accede to coterie politics. Become instead a freelance writer. Risk becoming the conscience of your reference group, indeed a public conscience. Look to your own failings, your own self-righteous anger and intolerance. Resist the bewitching attractions of court patronage and courtly politicos. Keep instead a distance from power. Renounce the alluring, merely oppositional role of critic and skeptic. Commit to a constructive vision. Be both a skeptic and a dreamer, a realist and an idealist. Break the intelligentsia's lazy, knee-jerk habit of lining up people in categories. Avoid addressing primarily the cultural elite. Address instead the informed lay person.
- Subjects
ORWELL, George, 1903-1950; AUTHORS; INTELLECTUALS; FREELANCE journalism; WRITING
- Publication
Society, 2005, Vol 42, Issue 6, p69
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02687518