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A rapist, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist walks into a bar. The bartender asks; “How’s the new book coming along Mr. Orwell?
Believe it or not, it's entirely possible to separate the artist from the art. Shocker, I know.
Whatever it is you think about him really doesn't matter.
I completely agree, it just happens that in this case a terrible person was also a terrible writer. It was simply a joke.
Is this because of the animation movie with the farm animals and your beloved leader bring depicted as a fat pig?
I don't care about boring films about boring books, I've despised Orwell's works since the moment I've read them when I was a liberal, because they are of poor quality. 1984 is even misogynous with its portrayal of the female character and the whole story is poorly written, as others have pointed out, there are better implementations of the same idea, such as a Brave New World.
So you consider Orwell a plagiarist, but not Huxley?
But that's four people..
Was that supposed to be some sort of joke or do you actually not know Orwell himself was: a rapist, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist? One man, four horrible qualities.
No, the joke was the the former. And not the point of the post. Rather than dismiss the reality we're in, presented by various authors reflecting the cyclical nature of mankind, it would be advantageous to the self to reflect on as well.