Orwell's Politics and the English Language Lou Pauly was a guest lecturer in my global politics class recently. Pauly pointed to the decay of our language as a cause of the degeneration of our understanding of each other and our own political systems. One example he gave was the overuse and misuse of the term 'globalization' to the point where the meaning has been lost and this term has become a catch phrase that is used without thought. In George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language, it is this exact issue that he addresses. George Orwell chastises today's modern writer's of criticism, ficti