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Reading this the animals could not believe how many times the man could say the same thing. No matter how many times they read it, the same thing was said. They learned that the writer was repetitious and kept saying the same stuff. For a while they thought he might say something different but no he kept repeating one thought, over and over.
Human psychology, never changes.
Orwell was disillusioned with socialism, after fighting for the Spanish Republicans (commies) in their civil war, wounded badly in the throat. See, Homage To Catalonia.
"There is no Epstein client list."
Whenever I think of Animal Farm, I think of the story of Boxer and it still brings me near tears.
Boxer was the horse who was so faithful, brave and strong. He believed anything could be solved by working harder. He was worked nearly to death doing everything he could to try to help the animals, only to be hauled away to the glue factory in the end.
In Lord of the Rings, orcs were once men but they were transformed by being under Sauron.
The point was that any one of us could be transformed into something inhumane, if we ended up in an inhumane system. It was an allegory of the Soviet Union.
Why we have a limited government - that almost the entire “new world order” misrepresents and dislikes.
Especially the parts where government agencies and agents must comply with the authority that is enumerated . . . and otherwise are prohibited from assuming powers.
IF only the people would step in order to enforce such limitations.
I was a young man when feminism became a thing. It seemed perfectly reasonable to support equity for women. I now look back and realize feminists have become the chauvinist pigs and are just as oppressive (if not more so) than the men they rebelled against. Things have gotten worse under the tyranny of feminism who like in Animal Farm have changed into what they once hated...
Exactly why we need term limits
Cue Frank Sinatra’s tune That’s Life