#gen z problems

Let's be precise about what @queercodedangel got wrong.

What the IRD list actually was:

A private notebook, handed to one person at the IRD, listing individuals Orwell thought were unsuitable to write anti-stalinist propaganda - not people he wanted arrested, surveilled, fired, or harmed - and none of them were.

Orwell believed these specific people were Stalinist sympathizers who would undermine the work of countering Stalinism. You can legitimately think that was a bad call - it was certainly a morally complicated one for Orwell. It was not, however, the act of an imperialist snitch. It was the act of someone who hated authoritarian Stalinism enough to do something uncomfortable about it, while continuing to publicly criticize the British state.

The tension between those two things evaporates the moment you understand Orwell's position: Stalinism wasn't socialism. It was fascism with better branding, and it was destroying the socialist project from within.

History proved Orwell right.

Orwell:

Got shot through the throat while fighting fascists in Spain

Spent decades producing some of the most devastating critiques of British imperialism ever written, including Burmese Days, and Shooting an Elephant.

Called himself a Democratic Socialist his entire adult life and meant it.

Wrote that "every line of serious work I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism."

@queercodedangel is taking one late-life episode, stripping it of all context, and canceling one of the sharpest anti-totalitarian, anti-imperialist pens of the twentieth century - because he wouldn't excuse Stalin's crimes. That's apparently the price of admission to the 2026 left - being ignorant enough to deny that Stalin was a monster.

Calling that "snitching" tells you nothing about Orwell. It tells you that for some people, anti-Stalinism is a greater sin than imperialism ever was - and you can only take that position if you know nothing about what Stalinism was.

That sucking vacuum of ignorance where actual knowledge should be doesn't inspire a single second of hesitation before they confidently preach provable falsehoods. The less @queercodedangel knows about Orwell, the IRD list, or Stalin's crimes, the more confident the verdict. This is what happens when a generation decides memes and reels are sufficient substitutes for actually reading anything.

Orwell spent his life fighting this kind of epistemic laziness - the willingness to flatten complex realities into politically useful, emotionally resonant, self-affirming fictions.

This is why Gen Z desperately needs to read the Orwell and Huxley they've been told to avoid.

"Don't protest you might get beat up" "Don't post political things you could get expelled" "Don't insult 'big people' they might come after you (or us)"

Gen z and today's youth as a whole have been hearing these things for years. But today, we are the only ones fighting for our future. You've made your lives, you've made this shithole of a world, and we fight to fix it because we are the ones who have to stay here for the next couple decades after you pass on.

We did it in Nepal. We did it in Bangladesh. We did it in Sri Lanka.

And I am so proud to say today the CJP and Indian gen z have propelled our fanatic dreams for rebellion into a real fight against the corrupt BJP government across almost every major Indian city.

The news will hide this. The media has little to no coverage outside of India (focusing on FIFA instead) because they fear we might inspire our Western counterparts. But don't let our efforts go to vain.

We have social media, we have the masses, we have an entire generation just waiting to get inspired and make a move. In today's world one post, one hashtag, one 'trend' is enough to ruin entire businesses.

This is the world we have to live in for the rest of our lives. This is the world we will birth children into. Do you really want to grow up and tell the next generation you didn't even try to protect them from the corrupt obtuse pedophilic criminals who currently run the world?

In the words of Aung San; "A country is not owned by a few officials. A country belongs to all its people."

i refuse to be called lazy and easily offended by the same group of people who were able to buy a house for a grape and 3 raisins whilst doing the bare minimum as their parents fought hard to give them an easier future and cried at the sight of someone of a different race sitting next to them on a bus.