Your comment shines an insightful light on Orwell's observations and commentary on the human condition, but it's getting some downvotes, presumably for the 2nd

Your comment shines an insightful light on Orwell's observations and commentary on the human condition, but it's getting some downvotes, presumably for the 2nd half of the 2nd para, which is worth considering in more detail. > In general, the fact that Orwell is remembered in the public consciousness as the 1984 guy is a shame (and is particularly jarring when right wing populists invoke his name to decry people who try and get them to stop lying). What do "right wing populists" mean when they call critics "Orwellian"?