For my EngLit exam (which I got a perfectly average B for!) George Orwell’s 1984 was a must read book. Along with the usual suspects….Shakespeare, Dickens, E.M. Forster, Arthur Miller etc.

Of them all, I disliked 1984 the most. What a depressing book. It did my ‘ead in.

But, over the many. many years since then, I have learned the truth of the age old maxim…

Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater

Just because you hate/disagree with/dismiss/can’t be arsed to read a source,

Do Not ever refuse it.

Wikipedia is a point in case.

Hidden Treasures lie within.

A cut and paste quote from the gift that etc

 

These two searchers and re-searchers have taken note of George Orwell‘s novel “Nineteen Eighty-four” as an exemplary “intellectual” product of the Era of Vasco da Gama. Being a European Christian, George Orwell successfully veiled the war-crimes committed by the European Christians and divert attentions creating a virtual world of a Big Brother’s “official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state”. This “Nineteen Eighty-four” is manipulation of human past par excellence. George Orwell ignored completely even the recent history that the European Christians, represented by the Pope and Kings of Spain and Portugal declared War on the rest of the world in the 15th century, a war that has not come to an end yet. The non-Catholic Kings in Europe have taken over the War from the Catholics and this declared World War by the European Christians is still accelerating. The Anglo-Saxon Christians, in Kingdoms or in so-called democratic states are in the forefront since the 18th century.