Konkvistador comments on George Orwell's Prelude on Politics Is The Mind Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2012 10:04:39AM 1 point [-]

I will need you to be more explicit with where you're gong with this.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2012 10:18:26AM *  6 points [-]

I think it is pretty obvious. I suggest you especially closely read the paragraphs where Orwell talks about say transferred nationalism and then pause for 5 minutes by the clock to consider what the intellectual descendants of these are in the modern Anglosphere.

TRANSFERRED NATIONALISM

  • (i) COMMUNISM.
  • (ii) POLITICAL [C]ATHOLICISM.
  • (iii) COLOUR FEELING.
  • (iv) CLASS FEELING
  • (v) PACIFISM.

Indeed that whole section basically reads like something out of the altright blogosphere's description of the modern intellectual world. But this is very political of me to directly point out. I'm going to give you a more direct answer that compliments this one in a PM. Vladimir may agree or disagree with my points, but I can understand why he may (I'm not sure he did) want to keep some inferential distances as a protection measure there.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 31 March 2012 02:09:57AM 2 points [-]

Here is a post by Eric Raymond that goes into more details.