George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) is most famous for writing the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, as well as other books with similar themes, most prominently Animal Farm (published in 1945).
That former book has been extraordinarily influential during all these decades (so much so that the term "Orwellian" is commonly used to describe totalitarian dystopias and other oppressive systems with insane ideologies), and it's actually eerie how well its description of its fictional world, especially all the concepts used in that world, apply to this day: Doublethink, newspeak, thoughtcrime, the Ministry of Truth, etc.
Many of the practices used by the fictional totalitarian regime in the book can be seen in one way or another in the modern western world, enacted by the far left. Sometimes it's outright eerie how closely the far left follows these principles laid out in the book, following the practice of the totalitarian government in it. The minute details may be slightly different, but the ideas are sometimes eerily accurate.
One would, thus, easily think that if Orwell lived today, he could perhaps see how well his book predicted the modern world, and would oppose the modern far leftist politics. Of course this is a complete hypothetical because he would today be 119 years old, but let's assume that he was born much later and he would be living and well today (and let's also ignore that as people get older they tend to give less of a flying fuck about conforming to new changes in social norms and politics). Would he actually oppose the current far-leftist policies and principles that they are enforcing onto society?
Naturally I have zero knowledge of George Orwell as a person, what he was like, what his personality was, even what his political opinions of the time was (other than he quite clearly opposed totalitarianism), so anything I say about him in this regard is pure speculation.
But the thing is, as much as I would like to think that he would be a staunch anti-leftist if he lived today... I just have this hunch that it's quite likely that he would not. That he would be a leftist activist himself, spouting and supporting all the same nonsense as the leftist academics are spouting today.
Perhaps he would retcon his book and claim that he was talking about "fascism", and that all that behavior by the totalitarian regime in the book, all those concepts, all those terms, they don't apply to the modern far left. Perhaps he would twist them and claim that it's the "far right" that's actually engaging in those things, today, not the left.
I have this hunch because I have noticed that those people in the creative arts, like writers, composers, graphic artists, actors, journalists and so on and so forth seem to be more prone to embracing modern far-leftism than those who are in more technical fields (with the only prominent exception that I can think of being comedians, where for some reason far-leftism has much less of a hold.) As a novelist and journalist, I easily see Orwell embracing modern far-leftism, regardless of what his politican stances were when he wrote his most famous book.
I could be wrong, of course, but this is all completely hypothetical anyway.
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