Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays

The lawyer, Laura Powell, just unearthed this interview ... references an essay from George Orwell called Shooting an Elephant. Watch.

I was never ... great old book about shooting an elephant.

I teach shooting an elephant today you know by George Roy well i love him much to Catalonia there's parts of it where he's talking about what or well it's talking about what it was like as a colonial administrator and how he knew colonialism was wrong but it's a lot like Thompson he was caught up in enforcing it so he shows how it destroys him as a way to argue against it which Thompson does a very good job of too but you know the talk of editing parts of or well now right you know instead of dealing with some of the you know like language that he has in it to me is mind blowing like within our present and just scrambles that goody or bady argument immediately you know and and it's to be really dangerous because it's like the example he gave us Roosevelt it's tinkering with something so essential information that is essential to us like you know his perspective so i don't know you know i think about our our current media situation it freaks me out a lot when and this gets back to the canon and banned books freaks me out a lot when we're going beyond our online like fights with each other and there's the idea that because our lens is the latest and the most important we now can begin to take out certain passages of a war well sure edit them and i mean i i i don't think that's anyway inherent to the present but i do think so much is magnified right now by the way that we wake up in the morning become accustomed to communicating with our phones or with everybody else