ABSTRACT
Have you ever read Orwell’s essay, ‘Shooting an Elephant’? No, I thought not. No one reads Orwell anymore. Big Brother, for most people nowadays, is a reality television programme that’s past its best-before date. Nineteen Eighty-four is an advert for Apple which was shown once and talked about ever since. Wigan Pier is a living history museum in the north of England that died a death in 2008. Animal Farm is a video game or computer app or something like that. Unless I’m getting mixed up with FarmVille …
