George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy

George Orwell was deeply concerned about hypocrisy—but in the opposite way you might expect. That’s what struck me about halfway through writing my new book The Hypocrisy Trap. Orwell spent his career hacking away at humbug and falsehoods and famously warned how language gets corrupted by “a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims.” 

You would think that means he would loathe hypocrisy, which I define as the perception that someone’s inconsistency is bringing them unjust gains. But that’s not the case.