Orwell in this instance is a rather large narcissist when it comes to making his tea. He makes a rather pointed statement right off the bat, that tea and how tea is made is something that is often fought over – and then goes to make the statement that his won way of making tea is the one and only true way. This is so narrow minded and narcissistic on so many levels.
First – he believes there is one way to make tea. Is this actually a joke? Making tea is a personal preference, if I walked in and said coffee is a universal taste I would be murdered, thus tea follows suit – many people like tea in many different ways. For instance my own family has had many large cross continental discussions and fights over tea brands, and ways of making it, how long the tea bag is left in the tea pot, the heat of the water, the time it is brewed, and so many other factors. With all of this considered, there is no way his narcissist view point can be taken seriously, as it stands the factor iI listed above disproves his whole concept of tea only being able to be made one way.
Next assuming that ones own way is the only and right way is so narrow minded. If Orwell merely tried another way who is to say he wouldn’t like it? Further everyone’s taste is different thus things that taste one way to him taste disgusting to me – so don’t assume everyone’s taste is that of your own.
For these reasons I can not even begin to take this article serious and honestly I wonder if he meant us to take it that way because the whole thing is just absurd. From all his other writing that dives so deep into so many ideas, on so many levels, I can not even fathom that he wrote this in a way to be simply declare himself the king of tea.
