Orwellian Language

George Orwell has given us much insight into political structures. Like a tour guide, he has illustrated for us the origins and failings of old edifices like totalitarianism and fascism. And now we come to the language section, which is either a creepily accurate forecast, or a prescription for an already ailing structure.
Basically, George Orwell felt that the English language was becoming spineless, vague, pretentious, and lazy. He states that linguistic tendencies popularized by traditional political language, often intended to be vague and circumlocutory, has started to seep into academic, critical, and even everyday language and writing. He thought, half a century ago, that writers weren’t bothering to think and state their claim blatantly. He criticizes modern language and culture for being shallow and increasingly meaningless, but he also gives good advice for critics.
Orwell addresses issues of poor prose, uninteresting imagery, and generally mindless writing. He even provides a list of basic rules to follow on page one hundred seventy. If a writer adheres to the rules, his writing will become more illustrative, it will include less mindless, cliché phrases, and it will be more stimulating and thought provoking for the reader. In general, if the piece doesn’t sound like this one, then you are golden.