When one says that a writer is fashionable one practically always means that he is admired by people under thirty.
all Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essaysby george Orwell
It will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and, after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive accepter of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.
The attitude of the Indian millionaires was similar. Gandhi called upon them to repent, and naturally they preferred him to the Socialists and Communists who, given the chance, would actually have taken their money away.
All “favourable” Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.