The Maverick Philosopher has an interesting look at the later George Orwell, as seen by Linoel Trilling:
he [Orwell] began to fear that the commitment to abstract ideas could be far more maleficent than the commitment to the gross materiality of property had ever been. The very stupidity of things has something human about it, something meliorative, something even liberating. Together with the stupidity of the old unthinking virtues it stands against the ultimate and absolute power which the unconditioned idea can develop.Curt's shorthand: Top down ideologies suck. Don't be afraid to be "stupid."
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