Even Orwell was embarrassed by the egoism in his writing: “The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition—in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all—and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives.” I don’t think Orwell was selfish. I think Orwell had something to say, and I’m glad he said it.
