The Road To Wigan Pier
A Nonfiction, Classics, Sociology book. the mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty. George Orwell, The...
Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the...
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The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result of class-distinctions. All my notions notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant, of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle-class notions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my table manners, my turns of speech, my accent,... the mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier // Words are such feeble things. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier //
Well, that was depressing.I heard about this book via a podcast with Jordan Peterson (who, apart from a couple things, is IMO quite a fruit loop when he gets on a tear about such philosophical questions as Truth). At any rate, I've loved Orwell as a fiction writer, but hadn't paid much attention to his non-fiction. So I'm grateful to... "You and I and the editor of the Times Lit. Supp., and the poets and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Comrade X, author of Marxism for Infantsall of us really owe the comparative decency of our lives to poor drudges underground, blackened to the eyes, with their throats full of coal dust, driving their shovels forward with arms and... I took the Road to Wigan Pier way too fastly. I drove by night through the 215 milestones between the beginning and the end of this trip. I have just parked for a few minutes halfway on the blank space between part I and part II. I turned off the engine and the headlights, had a little nap, restarted and drove straight to the very last...
