Orwell and the Woke

Townhall.com ^ | September 30, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

Epigraph: "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." George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

What were we to make of multimillionaire Barack Obama's 60th birthday bash at his Martha's Vineyard estate, and the throng of the woke wealthy and their masked helot attendants?

Was socialist Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suffering for the people when she wore a designer dress to the more than $30,000-a-ticket Met gala? Her entourage needs were certainly well-attended to by masked Morlock servants.

Did the leftist celebrities at the recent Emmy awards gather to discuss opening Malibu beaches to the homeless when the (unmasked) stars virtue-signaled their wokeness?

For answers about these hypocritical wokists, always turn first to George Orwell. In his brief allegorical novella, "Animal Farm," an array of animal characters – led by the thinking pigs of the farm – staged a revolution, driving out their human overseers.

The anti-human animal comrades started out sounding like zealous Russian Bolsheviks ("four legs good, two legs bad"). But soon they ended up conned by a murderous cult of pigs under a Joseph Stalin-like leader. And so, the revolution became what it once had opposed ("four legs good, two legs better").

[ronnie raygun]

The common people largely are idiots, they watch they applaud and they agree with those who control them

[facedown]

bttt

[Elsie]

Just maybe there ARE some animals that are more equal than others.

[TTFlyer]

Grillin’, Chillin’, and Sportsball - what used to be known as Bread And Circuses - while the Republic collapses and eventually dies. History repeats.

[John S Mosby]

Certainly SELF-anointed “more equal” than others... as in their outward behaviour to all of us “others”. They think they are more equal and are OWED this by us, and for us to be subservient. This is not what our Constitution or Declaration of Independence empowers us as Citizens. Our Consent is required... not our subservient obedience to false Masters, beyond our Lord above, who gave the Rights we have to us. God given Rights. Not what “rights” the self anointed think they can restrict.

[Elsie]

Our Consent is required..

I think I may have read that - somewhere - some time ago - in a very old book...

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Elsie]

... our Lord above, who gave the Rights we have to us. ...

---they are endowed by their Creator ---

Creator?

C'mon man!

We have EVOLVED!!

[Elsie]

If Christ is only your Savior, and NOT your Creator, then you got NUTTIN’ coming from THAT old document!

[lightman]

Perfect Trinitarianism...Prologue of the Gospel according to St. John the Theologian!

[glennaro]

These animals care as much about “equality” as communists care about workers … or, for that matter, as much as school boards care about children.

[Elsie]

When the Creator says, "Let US create...", an opened-minded person would KNOW there are at LEAST two parts to this creator!

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(and thanks for this tidbit on your homepage, too.)

Prosecute the heresies; pity the heretics. (St. Barnabas Day - October 19, 2013)

A variation on "hate the sin but love the sinner". I am very prejudiced against heresies, but I truly pity the unenlightened heretics.

[Elsie]

… or, for that matter, as much as school boards care about children.

They've got to be taught,
Before it's too late.
Before they are six,
or seven or eight...

[Elsie]

From link --->  Tolerance is no longer the desire. 

 

INDEED!

 

 

We are living in a Genesis 19:9 world...

 

"Get out of our way,” they replied.
“This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

[Elsie]

To hate love all the people
your relatives hate,
You've got to be
carefully taught.

[Elsie]

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

[NetAddicted]

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