Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism
Podcast: The Daily StoicI teach 'Shooting an Elephant' today by George Orwell. I love 'Homage to Catalonia,' but there are parts of it where he talks about what it was like as a colonial administrator, knowing colonialism was wrong. It’s a lot like Thompson—he was caught up in enforcing it, and it shows how it destroys him as a way to argue against it.