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'Diaries' review: The evolution of Orwell

Elinor Langer, Oregonian, 9/22/2012

"By April 1942 he was less charitable. 'Nowadays one takes it so much for granted that everyone is lying ... Two months after that he concluded he was living in a 'labyrinth of lies.' From there, it is not so far to '1984.'"

http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2012/09/diaries_review_the_evolution_o.html

His writings fit so glove-like to our times that George Orwell always seems to be too good to be true. For example, how else can one describe a society that has made egalitarianism its official civic religion and discrimination its worse sin, and yet at the same time has enshrined the wonderfully named "affirmative action" that straight-facedly adds and subtracts education and career points according to skin color?

You would have to pour over your thickest copy of Merriam-Webster with droplets of frustration forming on your upper lip to try to briefly describe such a Monty Python-worthy hypocrisy.  Instead we simple say in a sad vague knowing way: "Orwellian."