tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post9091087726900385725..comments2024-03-28T13:30:35.074+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The greatness of George Orwell - and his fatal flawBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52607337150615842502014-10-16T14:33:47.064+01:002014-10-16T14:33:47.064+01:00@K - "Where do you find Orwell supporting the...@K - "Where do you find Orwell supporting the sexual revolution?" In his life, and for example in 1984. And his general stance of radicalism and modernism, liberation etc. <br /><br />But the main point is that he was not religious, did not support a society based on Christianity - or not at all seriously religious - and I think a major reason was sexual. Koestler was the same in this regard. <br /><br />Contrast with Solzhenitsyn; who correctly understood that the main battle in Russia was not between Communism and Reactionaries, nor Proletarians and Bourgeois - but between Atheism and Orthodoxy - between anti-Christians and Christians (for the Orthodox, the last Tsar and his family were Saints who died for their faith). <br /><br />Christianity doesn't come into the core argument of either Animal Farm or 1984 - but for Russians, the Church was the focus of the revolution and what came after.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-90401378327232107382014-10-16T13:55:24.559+01:002014-10-16T13:55:24.559+01:00Where do you find Orwell supporting the sexual rev...Where do you find Orwell supporting the sexual revolution?<br /><br />In "The Art of Donald McGill" he notes that "all societies, as the price of survival, have to insist on a fairly high standard of sexual morality." The point of the comic postcards that form the pretext for this essay is that they are merely an outlet for the common man's grumbling against the high standards that must ultimately prevail. "It is only that the other element in man, the lazy, cowardly, debt-bilking adulterer who is inside all of us, can never be suppressed altogether and needs a hearing occasionally."Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030980000235824571noreply@blogger.com