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Living in Orwell’s Shadow
Living in Orwell’s Shadow

Living in Orwell’s Shadow

Bob Rae

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1 hour and 28 minutes

What am I doing, watching a documentary with a lot of Orwell footage and not sharing with you? I'm like frozen watching it.

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Full Documentary (High Quality)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6txpumkY5I

#GeorgeOrwell

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Full Documentary (High Quality)

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A quotation from Orwell

A nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive prestige. He may be a positive or a negative nationalist — that is, he may use his mental energy either in boosting or in denigrating — but at any rate his thoughts always turn on victories, defeats, triumphs and humiliations. He sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the upgrade and some hated rival is on the downgrade.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/45763/

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Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

A nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive prestige. He may be a positive or a negative nationalist -- that is, he may use his mental energy either in boosting or in denigrating -- but at any rate his thoughts always turn on victories, defeats,…

WIST Quotations
The Sporting Spirit | George Orwell

'I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.'

The Orwell Foundation
Continuing at #HOMEmcr for #RaoulPeck 's documentary #Orwell:2+2=5 which with #DamianLewis as it's narrator follows the career of #GeorgeOrwell - in particular his most famous novels #NineteenEighty-Four and #AnimalFarm in how it foreseen the relevance of it's messages in today's world.

Ich lese gerade das erste Mal seit meiner Schulzeit wieder Animal Farm. Was für ein Hammerbuch. Ich finde es noch stärker als damals.

#AnimalFarm #Orwell #GeorgeOrwell

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/

"La fattoria" di George Orwell in portoghese si chiama semplicemente "O triunfo dos porcos".

#georgeorwell #libri

Gibts eigentlich die #GeorgeOrwell-Essays »Future of a Ruined Germany« und »Notes on Nationalism« (beide 1945), oder »How the Poor Die« (1946) inzwischen auf Deutsch?