However most people FEEL to be a single nation Inequality of wealth in England worst than any other country However people still aren’t forced at gunpoint etcĮngland with six different names, rarely Albionĭifferences in Britain, UK fade when confronted by foreigners…and vice versa. Insstead suggesting that justice, liberty, objective truth still believed in.Įnglish electoral system an all but open fraud Totalitarian idea that there is no law, only power, has not taken root according to Orwell Gentleness of English civ vs old, anachornistic laws: e.g on hanging, flogging Military parades as a march of power…but one that only goes on in the countries where people are too afraid to laugh at them. Hypocrisy about own Empire…dislike the swaggering officer type (esp the common soldiers) and yet this is pretty much the type of rule that goes on in the countries subjugated. Patriotism of most people is not vocal or even conscious Gentle England doesn’t have any desire for military might as in Germany with Hitler etc Laws for liscening, gambling, lottery acts etc help to shape moral behaviour but ultimately fail.Rowdiness in pubs drinking beer, bawdy jokes, foulest language.Popular culture of england runs against authority “purely private liberty” of being able to choose a gentle past time like cups of tea, pub, football match etc.A sleep walking people – Hitler more appropriate for England than Germany.(counter argue with sapiens, how the history of a nation is just a story).
This flavour of england that reaches into the past.That the “average of human behaviour” does vary nation by nation.Modern world is distinguished by strength of patriotism, national loyalty.Power of nation to absolve what is otherwise a human crime in most cultures.First thoughts, most of the time paraphrasing Orwell’s arguments. What follows is some personal notes I’ve constructed on this Orwell essay.
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