George Orwell Post

Orwell thinks that if we remove our bad habits from the English language then we will be able to think more clearly and then our politics will make more sense. When I read this I thought, “No our politicians are just idiots,” but after reading more I realized that he was right. In the first several paragraphs when he gives examples of how language is misused, I understood what he was talking about. Politicians cannot write and therefore we have no idea what they are trying to say. They misuse metaphors that are commonly known to the public, and bring up metaphors that no one has ever heard of. They also throw around words that the average person will not understand and other meaningless words that cause the reader to lose the meaning of what is being said. I agree with Orwell when he is talks about the speeches and says, “they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech.” The speeches all the politicians are giving are old and boring and there is no reason for us to listen to them. When they do know what they are talking about they say it in a way to make it vague enough that they almost don’t even chose a side they just bring up a topic. They are doing what Orwell described as, “Naming things without calling up mental pictures of them.” If politicians would just say what they mean and say it in a way that people would understand them then they might make some sense and get something accomplished.