No passeron' that famous great slogan of the Spanish Civil War. George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War. Good that he did for lots of reasons. He can tell us one part of what happened. Witness, the writer is a witness, because words are not action.
Words act perhaps in some other domain, the imagination.
I maintain a very critical stance about the web for instance, but I have read thousands of words that are fine and useful and have provided me with great learning. It has opened up some doors and closed others. The lines of flight can be found anywhere. If we are looking. I am looking.