G. Orwell, Animal Farm and blind confirming. Review.
Animal Farm by George Orwell shines a light on how terrible things can get when power ends up in the corrupted hands and how easy things snowball.
This book is a satire of the Soviet regime period under Stalin. Being a piece that touches on much more than the mere history of Russia, it is a worthwhile read for any modern person interested in politics and sociology or history.
First of all, humans are generally alike on every side of the planet throughout known history. We like to be seen, heard, we want to be successful, we are corruptible by power, we all have a dark side that we hide, we dream of a better world, think our parents did so-so of a job with us, and we tend to look down on new generations.
Stalin wasn’t an exceptional psychopath, and Bolsheviks weren’t evil. It’s all of us, humans, who are susceptible to large scale mistakes, although some more than others.
Therefore, this book is about us, about people and our tendencies and weaknesses. In a light fiction style, Orwell masterfully illustrates how a combination of ignorance, forgetfulness, and idealism spiced up with opportunists leads o hell.
In short and simple manner (and actual events references), Orwell shows how leaders take power over the public. How manipulation, threat, misinforming, changing the facts, using hysterical crowds and public punishments, rulers cement their positions, shutting up voices of the society with loud promises of a perfect ever-coming future.
Animal Farm even touches on the intricate connection between ruling and propagandising religious ideas for the sake of slaving people away.
The book runs deep. It hits hard. And it surely opens eyes to the potential terrors of the blind (or censored) confirming.
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