Zebra

Uncompromising idealist who saw the world in black and white.

Orwell was a fiercely principled thinker who refused to bend his beliefs to political convenience — attacking Stalinist communism at a time when the left was expected to defend it, and skewering imperialism from within the very system that employed him. His writing is relentlessly analytical and morally absolute, with a subtle arrogance that assumed his moral clarity was self-evident to any honest observer. Like the zebra, he was stubbornly loyal to his own code, never accepting defeat in an argument, and willing to alienate allies rather than compromise a principle.