From 1945 to 2022The porcine politburo of George Orwell’s Animal Farm now prevails in North America.
By Lloyd Billingsley
February 21, 2022
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is packed with parallels to 2022 such as the Thought Police, Hate Week, alteration of the past, and so forth. For more fearful symmetry on the current scene, dial back to 1945, when Orwell’s Animal Farm hit the bookstores. As in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell was writing about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The prize boar Old Major is Karl Marx, Snowball is Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon is Josef Stalin. Inspired by the Old Major’s dream, the revolutionary animals evict the exploiter Jones and take over his farm. Though supposedly run on an egalitarian basis, it quickly emerges that some animals are more equal than others. Consider, for example, the distribution of food on the animal farm.
“Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare.”
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Down on the Animal Farm, the ruling pigs kept the working animals down by warning that Jones would return. Then it turns out that the pigs are hanging out with the oppressive humans. As the tale concludes: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” That, too, has broad application today.
Contrast the addled Joe Biden with the outlook of Rip Van Winkle socialist Bernie Sanders and the AOC squad. Most days it’s hard to tell which is which.
North of the border, it’s hard to tell the difference between Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro, for both political and biological reasons. Probably too late for a DNA test, but when it comes to ideology, the two clearly produce the same shit.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/21/from-1945-to-2022/
