History Lessons

[rebness]

Last night, I stayed up to watch a pretty innovative documentary on BBC2 about George Orwell. They used fake footage with an actor speaking his words, giving already powerful or amusing thoughts on everything from the death penalty to the Spanish civil war to patriotism to making a cup of tea.

One part of the documentary focused on his days spent with the British police in India when it was controlled by the Empire. He mused at one point that it struck him how inherently wrong, and how hypocritical it is, for a power to force itself on another country and then presume to police it with force and expect the inhabitants to be grateful.

I wish we had a writer as powerful as Orwell around to record the events of today.

Comments

[gairid.livejournal.com]

What was the name of the documentary? I'd love to see that...George Orwell had amazing foresight. In light of the way *this* (U.S.) country is at the moment , his works seem very timely indeed. *wonders when Dubya will introduce the Two Minute Hate*

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

I wanted to say that we did have a writer as powerful as Orwell around, but... I can't think of any names.

How about Rebecca [your last name], hmm?