Fritzkreig t1_iucjyzx wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:26 AM

This is a late night, gew too many beers thought.

But Orwell is of the age of the Inklings

The group were pretty Christian, and the idea of free will under a governing body is all though all their books; and kinda a big focus in the Christian bible.... soooo make of that with what you will.

Jack-Campin t1_iucn78k wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:13 AM

Orwell and the Inklings would have hated each other's guts. Orwell detested Christianity, but at the time he was writing the Inklings were too obscure to be worth disputing with or caricaturing. The all-out fascism of Christians like Chesterton and Belloc would have been much better known and more of a target given his Spanish Civil War experiences, but they weren't allegorized as part of 1984's landscape either.

Fritzkreig t1_iuco61e wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:27 AM

Yes, yes I agree! Maybe I didn't write that out how I thought.

Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London Has a quite different view of power than say Tolkien; but honestly one can find a lot of similarties about power. Perhaps just a different way to approach it.