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Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Drama of Winston

"Winning is not the destroying of your body and as a set for the subjugation of your actions but it depends upon converting you into betraying yourself," he says. "It makes Descartes' demon god look positively cuddly." He adds that if Winston had left Julia alone she wouldn't have gotten in his path.

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