. . "Self wants to denigrate Orwell but can not actually say he is bad, so he prattles on about mediocrity for a while and critiques Politics and the English Language, which is generally unfortunately read mostly by people who are not familiar with the type of 1930s political journalism that Orwell was making a critique of.posted by graymouser at 3:25 AM on August 31, 2014 [15 favorites] Huh, I just read" . .