GEORGE ORWELL STILL TEACHING

George Orwell taught me the inner workings of a police state in his book 1984. Most of us knew that we lived in a police state for a long while, but authorities allowed us to function as long as we did not grow out of the narrow parameters of the state. In 1984 Orwell showed how a state could control every aspect of life. Orwell hated tyranny no matter where it came from. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying Orwell showed me how the writer struggles against the main stream in order to be a critical thinker in terms of society. The artistic writer can also become trapped by the wife and child in a flat life style. Orwell taught me over twenty years ago and he will teach you today if you are open to learning. Who teaches you?