![]() ![]() nationalists also put themselves into a category or ‘unit’, but place this beyond values like good and bad.the habit of putting people into categories, and then labelling them good or bad.Surprisingly, it’s not about love for one’s country. He starts by defining what nationalism is. “the habit of mind I am talking about is widespread among the English intelligentsia, and more widespread there than among the mass of the people.” While Orwell gives many examples of nationalism, the frame for his argument is the failings of intellectualism in the 1940s: Reading Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London … by email?.As we lurch ever more to the Right, his essay is a timely reminder of the dangers and limitations of nationalistic thinking and self-deception. Much of Orwell’s writing is still (or even more) recognisable in the world right now. You’ll find many of the themes of that later novel present in this essay, too – sometimes in startling and interesting ways. ![]() George Orwell’s Notes on Nationalism was published a year before he started writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four. What Orwell says in Notes on Nationalism (1945), and why it’s still relevant today. ![]()
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