I am not one given to spiritual experiences living in this grimy world for so long, but I had a visit from George Orwell as I was sitting on my balcony early this am. He has always helped to see things no one wants to pay attention to.
European imperialism justified itself in terms of a ‘science’ of racial hierarchy with white people at the top. Orwell experienced racial injustice in the East and sought to emancipate himself from racial thinking: he concluded there was no such thing as race, which was ‘the invention of conquering nations’. Nonetheless, while some of his compatriots shrank from Asians as ‘beastly’, he writes with strange enthusiasm about the beauty of Burmese men. The dark suffering face became his recurring metonym for injustice. After Burma he says he was haunted by the ‘innumerable remembered faces’ of Burmese imprisoned, beaten, and condemned: in Nineteen Eighty-Four, the future is a boot stamping on a human face. In wartime, African Americans and Jews joined his list of victims of racial injustice, and he struggled to understand anti-Semitism: ‘the Jew is evidently a scapegoat, though for what he is a scapegoat we do not yet know’.
I am not one given to spiritual experiences living in this grimy world for so long, but I had a visit from George Orwell as I was sitting on my balcony early this am. He has always helped to see things no one wants to pay attention to.
Orwell was a phony.
Thank you.
Yeah, he was a great guy
I'd call that a prophetic experience
You misinterpret Orwell. He was a policeman in India. He saw the racism at the core of Empire and hated it and he criticized it.
An Academic perspective
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European imperialism justified itself in terms of a ‘science’ of racial hierarchy with white people at the top. Orwell experienced racial injustice in the East and sought to emancipate himself from racial thinking: he concluded there was no such thing as race, which was ‘the invention of conquering nations’. Nonetheless, while some of his compatriots shrank from Asians as ‘beastly’, he writes with strange enthusiasm about the beauty of Burmese men. The dark suffering face became his recurring metonym for injustice. After Burma he says he was haunted by the ‘innumerable remembered faces’ of Burmese imprisoned, beaten, and condemned: in Nineteen Eighty-Four, the future is a boot stamping on a human face. In wartime, African Americans and Jews joined his list of victims of racial injustice, and he struggled to understand anti-Semitism: ‘the Jew is evidently a scapegoat, though for what he is a scapegoat we do not yet know’.
https://academic.oup.com/book/43860/chapter-abstract/370820596?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The Jews think Orwell was an anti-semite:
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/the-ever-present-antisemitism-of-george-orwell-mk2pu7e9
I would encourage you not to denigrate another person's spiritual experiences. I take Nancy McGreevy at her word.