Eric Arthur Blair known to us as George Orwell fought in Spain with a Republican unit, against Franco's Nationalists during Spain's civil war.
Despite his left wing sympathies Blair soon learned that his real enemies were at his back, not to his front. Blair sustained a throat wound the result of one of his allies from a Communist militia attempting to eliminate those he perceived insufficiently dedicated to the "cause," to ensure that the purist expression of the socialist revolutionary spirit sweeping Spain would triumph.
Blair returned to the UK working with the BBC throughout the years of the second world war as a radio broadcaster, as well as expressing his thoughts on totalitarian governance through his books well known to most of us.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind ~George Orwell
Blair's early life was privileged for his father was a high ranking official in the Indian Civil Service enabling Blair to receive a private education in the UK, then to enter the Burmese Police Service where he perceived that he was unpopular the result of his ethnic background. Years later Blair twigged that his Indian, and Burmese police colleagues were also deeply unpopular for daring to fight crime. In other words Blair had allowed his ideological luggage to dictate his misunderstandings.
Our perceptions are crafted by how we respond to those encounters that create our impressions. Perception can seem like reality, but tell that to the people who thought the earth was once flat including many in the Catholic hierarchy who had the great Italian polymath Galileo Galilei placed under house arrest for daring to express a scientifically determined fact. The Vatican's then secretary of state supported Galileo's discovery ensuring that Galileo did not suffer unduly from the ignorance of many who should have known better.
For the curious this Wikipedia article is worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
In my own experience I have been corrected time, after time by my inner inspiration asking me to remain patient with my life's learning lessons, by taking more time to understand that our immediate first reponses to any given circumstances, are often driven by our prejudices that can construct a warped interpretation of the stimuli, that daily confront us encouraging us to draw conclusions that are at best premature and dangerously short on understanding the complete picture as Eric Blair would gradually learn from his experiences.
Patience is a valuable companion gifted to us by Our Saviour to mellow our passions, and realise that first impressions are often the result of jumping to an incorrect understanding of that which has aroused our wish to pronounce our opinion.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbour in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us
~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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