American Digest Channels George Orwell

....and hits one out of the ballpark.

Orwell once said...

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

Gerard Van der Leun, a fellow Orange Countian, and member of the California Bear Flag League, re-writes a portion of George Orwell's lengthy essay of 1941 The Lion and the Unicorn, for our century, to devastatingly accurate effect.

His effort is a wonderfully insightful piece that is must reading.

As one Blogger wrote in a comment that was left:

Orwell had the gift of seeing the essential truth in what people said and did and somehow expressed his conclusions in simple clear prose easily understood by ordinary people. As long as people make the same mistakes his observations will be relevant, even if a bit of updating helps.

Sad, but true.