What Lessons Can You Learn From Animal Farm

Those who do not acquire from history are doomed to repeat information technology.

I believe that quote with all my center because it has happened earlier.

Being into politics, I have seen tons of George Orwell quotes and "Large Blood brother" references. Since I was a bit scared to offset out with 1984 but I wanted to read something by Orwell, I settled on Brute Farm. Information technology took me a long time to read because it was then deep. My analytical heed feasted.

Depending on how you read it, this tin be a very elementary novel (if you but "read" it) or information technology can be a very detailed political novel. After I exercise lots of inquiry on Communist Russia, I want to reread information technology and come across how my perspective on the novel changes.

I was planning to do a review on this, but instead, since there are millions of reviews out at that place, I'll list some things I learned from this great piece of literature.

1. It is easier to control ignorant people rather than educated ones.
The children in schools are America'southward time to come. What is taught in schools volition exist the hereafter. Our public schools are raising ignorant people. They are taught that truth comes from authority merely and to obey without thinking. They are all raised the same (Common Core) and are "weird" when they recall dissimilar and question ideas.

2. Even if others (politicians) seem smarter, that doesn't mean they will do whats best for you lot.
The animals in Estate Farm elected the pigs in accuse because they were smarter. Perhaps the pigs started out well-meaned. Once the pigs realized that all of the animals listened to them without thinking, they started to corruption their ability. Boxer begins maxim, "Napoleon is e'er correct." This is 1 of the worst things to believe mostanyone.

3. Besides much government leads to dictatorship.
For the aforementioned reason as #2. Politicians generally practice not intendance about you and they merely care about themselves, their families, and their friends. The regime does Not have you in their all-time involvement.

4. Bullheaded obedience is a main crusade of brainwashing.
"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it often plenty, it volition be believed." -Adolf Hitler
Ane of the reasons I read Fauna Farm is considering I wanted to discover Orwell firsthand – I didn't want any bias, conservative or liberal, to shape my opinion. I try to kickoff out at a neutral view, weigh the facts, mind to both sides, and and then decide my opinion.

5. People are willing to follow, and love, dictators…equally long as they sound good.
At the end of the story, the animals were in the same position equally they were in the beginning of the novel under Farmer Jones. One time people begin to think and larn the signs of dictators, they are very like shooting fish in a barrel to spot out. Think, Hitler preached modify and anybody loved him and followed him blindly, despite much horrible evidence against him, because "Hitler is always correct!" Napoleon preached change (over-throwing Farmer Jones) and the animals began blindly following them, despite much horrible evidence against him, because "Napoleon is e'er correct!"

six. Y'all cannot destroy an unabridged evil at its zenith.
When multiple animals come forward and acknowledge "crimes" confronting Napoleon, Napoleon commits the first murders at Animal Subcontract. At that point, information technology would have been incommunicable to stop because of how powerful (big government) Napoleon was. I am very fond of the quote, (paraphrased, multiple people have said it) "The Holocaust did not start with a gas chamber. Information technology began with, 'y'all cannot sit on that bench.'" Later letting the "little things" slide, the small farm turns monstrous and you cannot stop it.

7. Rewriting history and lying are the first steps to brainwashing and dictatorship.
When the pigs begin rewriting the Seven Commandments, some animals realize something is wrong, nonetheless they do nothing about it. I recently read an commodity almost a school in Britain that was omitting the Holocaust from their studies to not "offend" Muslim students. Are you lot kidding?? You CANNOT pretend the Holocaust didn't happen and that is why I research so much about it. You CANNOT rewrite that fourth dimension period to make somebody happy. Sorry.

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