Notes on Nationalism

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.html ^ | May, 1945 | George Orwell

[SusanUSA]

Finished the article and enjoyed it tremendously! The whole piece is great but there are some specifics near the end that are priceless!Thank you so much for the post. How do you find these things?

And, as usual, it is followed by fascinating discussion.

agrandis....ping! (I think you'll find it worth the time. Any thoughts?) :-)

[A.J.Armitage]

The only thing I find annoying is the use of the very word "nationalism" which Orwell then goes to great lengths to re-define so that its new meaning has little or no resemblence to its accepted meaning. Because his interpretation is so much at odds with conventional usage, it would have been better if he appropriated some other term. In fact, he has one from his own pen : groupthink.

You're right. If I'm not mistaken, Orwell coined groupthink after he wrote the essay, so maybe it reflects his own search for a better term.