Orwell on the totalitarian outlook of intellectuals

Submitted by David on Fri, 2024-02-23 11:21

“Intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history, etc. so long as they feel that it is on ‘our’ side.”

George Orwell, 1944. pic.twitter.com/JK8gmennUR
— English Radical History (@EnglishRadical) March 17, 2019

(Some context here).