MelK
06-21-2004, 08:44 AM
George Orwell in Animal Farm wrote:
"But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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."
Moral and Lesson of book Animal Farm was...."Politicians will eventually manipulate situations and organizations for their own benefit, results end up as bad, if not worse, than the real or imaginary evils from which they are protecting their followers from."
George Orwell predicted GW Bush and his followers near perfectly. The parallels are eerie. In just 23 years, the Sheep have made the transition from Ronald Reagans "4 legs good, 2 legs bad" to George Bush's "4 legs good, 2 legs better". The blind loyalty to Bush and incapability to seek the truth is at a level not seen in American History.
TNT occasionally replays the Jim Henson version of Animal Farm. (http://www.hallmarkent.com/property.php?propertyId=AnimalFarm&page=synopsis)
Cast:
LBJ and Jimmy Carter as "Mr & Mrs. Jones"
Ronald Reagan as "Old Major" the old Boar
Newt Gingrich as "Snowball"
George Bush as "Napoleon"
John Ashcroft as "Squealer"
Neoconservatives as "The Pigs"
Book/Movie even has a Windmill "terrorist attack" on which all the problems of the farm are attributed and the Pigs seize freedoms and power......
Parallels are uncanny on how the Reagan Revolution (Old Major Revolution) failed.
"But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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."
Moral and Lesson of book Animal Farm was...."Politicians will eventually manipulate situations and organizations for their own benefit, results end up as bad, if not worse, than the real or imaginary evils from which they are protecting their followers from."
George Orwell predicted GW Bush and his followers near perfectly. The parallels are eerie. In just 23 years, the Sheep have made the transition from Ronald Reagans "4 legs good, 2 legs bad" to George Bush's "4 legs good, 2 legs better". The blind loyalty to Bush and incapability to seek the truth is at a level not seen in American History.
TNT occasionally replays the Jim Henson version of Animal Farm. (http://www.hallmarkent.com/property.php?propertyId=AnimalFarm&page=synopsis)
Cast:
LBJ and Jimmy Carter as "Mr & Mrs. Jones"
Ronald Reagan as "Old Major" the old Boar
Newt Gingrich as "Snowball"
George Bush as "Napoleon"
John Ashcroft as "Squealer"
Neoconservatives as "The Pigs"
Book/Movie even has a Windmill "terrorist attack" on which all the problems of the farm are attributed and the Pigs seize freedoms and power......
Parallels are uncanny on how the Reagan Revolution (Old Major Revolution) failed.