The novelist and essayist George Orwell once defined politics in "the widest possible sense" as a "desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people's idea of the kind of society they should strive after." For Orwell, no book -- or by extension any work of art or commentary or reporting -- coudl be "genuinely free of political intent." According to Orwell, even the belief that some form of expression "should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."
Do you agree with Orwell's views? Why or why not? How would you define "politics"? Is it desirable or even possible to try to "have nothint to do with politics"?
