Farm Animals

By Steelwell, John

Book Id: WPLBN0100304282
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Reproduction Date: 05/13/2020

Title:	Farm Animals
Author:	Steelwell, John
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Political Science, Dystopian Literature
Collections:	Authors Community, Literature
Historic Publication Date:	2020
Publisher:	Kindle & Draft2Digital Platforms

Member Page:	John Steelwell
Citation APA MLA Chicago Steelwell, B. J. (2020). Farm Animals. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
A dictatorship isn’t evil. It is the evolution of democracy. The people have the right to defend themselves from the evils of oligarchy and the destruction of their culture. Orwell was wrong. Power doesn’t corrupt people. People corrupt power.

Summary
On an oat farm, one man and his forefathers made a living. There were animals on his farm too. He wasn’t very good at caring for them and they were not as stupid as he thought. Time went on and the animals began thinking, talking, asking themselves and each other: why were they living in sties? One day the animals rebelled. They chose their own fate rather than leaving it in the hands of man. They chose their own path to freedom. From that day forth, they became the animals of the farm. The farm - the Farm. This was a free Farm. A democracy, with the “Farmer” elected from among them. Not for long. The pigs came along. They told the farm animals – they got it wrong. Their path to prosperity is all skewed. The only way is through the unseen guiding force of nature.It speaks to the pigs. It tells them, that they must own the oat fields and the animals must work them. The farm animals must feed them. As the pigs feed on the oat, it will trickle down their snouts. The fatter the pigs become, the wealthier the Farm is. One thing led to another, and the farm animals couldn’t change that if they tried. They became a society forced to carry the dark flames of liberty of the few at the expense of the many. All the animals were free - but some had all the freedom of others.

Excerpt
It would be a new era. A new Farm. “So, what do you want?” Martius asked. “I want a revolution against Farm’s backward ways. I want a peaceful revolution of our values, for those poor souls that hunger in our free Farm and to stand up for those like Daiser. I want to revolt against those who are oppressed like him. A revolution for those poor farm animals born in the hides of the wrong farm animal.” Gallant replied. What would this revolt, this “revolution” entail? What would it bring? What would it change? In light of hardship, struggle and chaos, anything goes. It was going to be a “revolution” without substance. Stumbling on its own principles, not aimed at the reasons why the Farm became what it was, but rather this new age revolution found its own reasons. It accommodated reality to justify its failure to undertake a struggle for the farm animals and to bring meaningful change. The communal egalitarians could not bring meaningful results, so they invented their own goals that didn’t require a quantified outcome. It was a revolution that created its own synthetic goals to satisfy the need for change, without changing anything. It was a revolution not to remove the order the pigs have created. Instead, this was a revolution to accustom the farm animals to the pigs’ hegemony. Knowing that the pigs could not be targeted, they target something else to satisfy their bottled-up sense of injustice. With their vector poised at the “new age” and “progressive values,” this revolution targeted those much weaker. They targeted the farm animals. The communal egalitarians didn’t target the pigs. The revolution led by Gallant would not achieve anything except to further fortify the instigators of the Farm’s demise. A revolution without a revolt would allow Martius to exploit the hopes of the Farm animals and let their discontent be redirected. His resources would only facilitate the pigs. Their grip on technology, information and labour were his tools. He had to look after his Farm. His animals.

Table of Contents
About the Author, Chapters 1 - 22