“Shooting an Elephant” is also a cool look at how the imperialist mind reacts to decolonization and the idea of being irrelevant and powerless.

This is overrated by liberals trying to interpret Orwell as not being a reactionary. https://redsails.org/on-orwell/ See also: https://redsails.org/jones-on-animal-farm/

I think he has interesting things to say about language, but his social commentary is garbage.