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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) Shooting An Elephant, by George Orwell Quicklink submitted by martin weiss (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. |
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Thanx for this, Martin.
by GLloyd Rowsey on Saturday, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:21:09 PM