EPISODE · Jan 27, 2022 · 28 MIN
American Animal Farm (George Orwell's Vision of a Communist State)
from The American Enterprise Manifesto: My America's Vision of Peace and Nonviolence for Humanism · host Jerry Rhoads
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon and his brothers the boars who were the intellects in the farm yard, forming a rebellion against the dictator farmer. “Then the comrades can have a new totalitarian regime and a new maxim: “According to the seven commandments all comrades are created equal. But some comrades are more equal than others”. depicted by Orwell in Animal Farm where the dictator is run off the farm so the smarter boars and pigs could garner the support of the comrades for equality, until the farm could not meet its output quotas. And then it becomes a socialist state. Until the farm no longer could afford to pay equal wages, and then it becomes a Communist state with a Politburo of Boars, to control the underpaid and unpaid workers. Then due to the need to trade with their neighbors, the elite intellectual management teamed up with the other dictator farmers, for the greater good of the owners, not the greater good of the worker animals. Sounds strangely familiar, doesn’t it? America the bountiful Animal Farm, having freed through a revolution, the Few stronger and more intelligent leaders to be the lawmakers for the Many, formed a two-party system of competing interests calling themselves politicians. Freedoms were promised the Many in a constitutional government based on God given rights and mortal punishment if violated. Along comes issues that were in reality problems but too volatile to justify action, allowing the stronger animals to dictate behavior for the use of the Many's labor. The smarter of the Many elected leaders and appointed committees, task forces, hearings and judicial decision to defer and alter historical events in their image. Along, comes the build bigger government with taxation, strict laws to be adjudicated by the smarter boars who set the boundaries for production. These executives used intimidation and corruption to garnered the markets and control the economy. Of course, they voted for the Boars for deciding on the seven commandments where the animals can be equal, free, and happy but failed to vote on the seventh commandment that only applied to the Boars. Biden, the leader Boars, rallied the animals around the "build the farm back better" and began to drain the coffers of the Many using debt and deficit spending to change the environment of the farm lot. While letting the animals living in the squalid pig pens to fend for themselves in spite of gangs committing crimes and poverty that existed there. Backed by the bigger animals a union was formed for the good of the Many so they could have their six commandments decided by a court of the Boars. The court would be 12 intellectual Boars with Big Brother Biden the deciding vote. The leader of the smaller animals who were poor and downhearted planned a revolt against the seventh commandment demanding that all animals are free, having equal in rights and prosperity from the farm's crops. Thus, Trump the Pontiff, was born as the savior of the farm. Nurtured by the builders and gamblers, he set fire to the farm house and barn. Burning like a Roman candle. He then took on the Boars Council of Law, with a stampede of the Many, for taking down the fake news and social mediators for the sake of equity, from equal pay based on getting a skill to bill and a learn to earn education. For the first time in the farm's history the proles (Many) were allowed to compete for the law making enforces using the moniker of job makers.
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