Orwell
My favourite author is George Orwell. Ever since I first read The Road to Wigan Pier I was completely hooked and scoured libraries in my youth searching and uncovering everything he had written. By the time I was 20 I had read everything. Now, at the ripe old age of 55, I have read, re-read and written about him more times than I care to mention. So when I come across articles titled "Please stop comparing things to 1984" my interest is slightly piqued. Whatever could these "things" be? I mean, it is a dystopian novel written in the shadow of the aftermath of WWII (1949) And its an easy book to reference due to the sheer scale of its global reach, Anybody with a penchant for reading will have read it at some point. So why should we stop referencing it? lets look at the article.. https://electricliterature.com/please-stop-comparing-things-to-1984/ In the first paragraph its pretty easy to see the authors political views. I'll go out on a limb and say. Far left, A...