Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Animal Farm


Many comments been heard on our society, focusing much on the value deterioration mostly on those whohave power.
I could not help but to relate it to the famous book called animal farm. This masterpiece was written by George Orwell (thought I find not many Malaysia read his great works).

This is a powerful book and I recommend it heartily. Insights were so strong that Mr. George Orwell could foresee it more than 60 years ago.
The story is simple: a group of farm animal, after being tired of their drunken owner, decided to revolutionize and decide to rule themselves. Suddently they are independent! (sound familiar?)

Upon gaining the independency; the animals works closely and heartily and think only for their animal kingdom.
Many declarations were made such as
- 4 legs are friends; 2 legs (human) are enemies
- All animals are equal.


Just always, some clever ones try to take advantage. In this case; pig is the clever ones. They manipulate the situation to enable them to have power and wealth. Later they change the slogan to suit them

- All animal are equal;
- but some are more equal than others.

These declarations with clauses are not strange to us. We are in situation that most things are with conditional clauses. Just the recent incident, only most of us realized finally. I may rephrase it:

- All Malaysians have the freedom to choose their religion*

* in this case, as we all know, but I shall be allow to mentioned as I may be caught without trial

Also in this book; it states that when the animal kingdom are turning into worst scenario, (after the pig rules the kingdom with iron and fists), they draw away attention by parades, awards declaration and many others. Also, when things got even worst, they idolize their leader nadn put his picture visible everywhere. Does it sound familiar?

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