the manor america
i just read animal farm for the first time. i read it in one sitting. i haven’t done that in a long time.
i’m hungry right now, i didn’t realize it while i was reading. the sun is bright now, too. it has become afternoon.
the comparisons are endless. creating enemies. blaming enemies. fear. changing rhetoric (remember when hussein and iraq were u.s. allies and business partners? remember learning about wwii—how people were encouraged by the government to consume less, in order to aid the war effort. now it is the opposite—this administration asking us all to be good patriots of our great country by buying more, consuming more. we have to keep the economy strong, after all). it is absolutely right in stride with the point of the book when critics and reviewers say that it is a comment on totalitarianism, as if such a thing could never happen here.
the nationalism, the pride and the flag. the just work harder and success will happen. working jobs so a few can have greater and greater profit off of others' labor. the need for those in the know to keep things running, you all wouldn’t understand.
i guess i had an idea about the book already but the experience of reading it was more powerful and meaningful than i could have imagined. and the cat, i think about the cat.
i’m hungry right now, i didn’t realize it while i was reading. the sun is bright now, too. it has become afternoon.
the comparisons are endless. creating enemies. blaming enemies. fear. changing rhetoric (remember when hussein and iraq were u.s. allies and business partners? remember learning about wwii—how people were encouraged by the government to consume less, in order to aid the war effort. now it is the opposite—this administration asking us all to be good patriots of our great country by buying more, consuming more. we have to keep the economy strong, after all). it is absolutely right in stride with the point of the book when critics and reviewers say that it is a comment on totalitarianism, as if such a thing could never happen here.
the nationalism, the pride and the flag. the just work harder and success will happen. working jobs so a few can have greater and greater profit off of others' labor. the need for those in the know to keep things running, you all wouldn’t understand.
i guess i had an idea about the book already but the experience of reading it was more powerful and meaningful than i could have imagined. and the cat, i think about the cat.
posted by matt iv at 12:37 PM
2 Comments:
Picked this book up years ago in a thrift store and have yet to read it. As soon as I get to a place where I can unpack it, it will surely be close to the top of the list to read.
i read some of the quotes from the book you're reading now....slowness, is that the title? it sounds really good. i'd like to check it out.
i read down and out in paris and london, also by g. orwell, a couple months ago. it was good. but i have never read 1984. have you ever read his book about burma? i can't remember the title for sure....something like burma nights or burma days or something. i've heard it's a great illustration of imperialism (i've never read it).
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