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| Subject: OZschwitz Slave Pen: government parenting program turning librarians into snitches Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:48 pm | |
| Everybody likes 1984, or Animal Farm, but for my money, the best George Orwell book is his memoir Down and Out in Paris and London, in which our hero plays the original poverty tourist in Paris, where he works as a dishwasher (the French word, plongeur, is far more noble) and in the UK, where he lives as a tramp.
Orwell’s book was rejected by several publishers. When it was finally published, in 1933, it was well reviewed, but upset some people. Orwell’s humanisation of the poor was subversive, as were his observations about social attitudes towards them.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-is-the-government-telling-parents-how-to-look-after-their-kids-20190301-p5116s.html |
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