Terry Eagleton on George Orwell

is Enlightenment conflation of truth, language, clarity and moral integrity may have involved some questionable epistemology but politically speaking it is worth a lot more than the work of those whose contribution to the subversion of Western Reason is to write unintelligibly.

One should be cautious of those who loudly insist on cutting the crap and telling it like it is, just as one should beware of those who find things too exquisitely complex for definitive judgement.