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The Walls We Dare To Cross

Posted on 21/04/2011 by admin

The brilliant and original George Orwell was disenchanted with his own class in English society and thought that the working classes embodied the values he wanted to live amongst. He was disenchanted to find they did not. In fact the values he espoused are not to be found anywhere in a strata of society – they are only ever found in individuals.

One of the reasons the British and India got on so well was the fact that both during the time of the Raj had well defined classes in their societies. Definitions which E.M. Forster knew well and outlined in his overvalued book A Passage To India. But these strata build up in all societies and people do not cross them very often. The stuff of Hollywood 1930 comedies centres around the rich and poor meeting and having a laugh.

But class is no laughing matter. The fear the rich have for the poor, the indifference one class has for another, the forced marriages to enclose families and class, the passing on of inheritances purely to maintain power over others, the accepted over the talented.

It may be that these things are normal for human beings. But we should own them as part of our animal nature and not part of reason.  Reason should not do anyone down.

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