Post by Fewms on Feb 8, 2009 19:11:35 GMT
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Melon Farm
By Fane Slanning.
Synopsis:
Manor Farm has fallen on hard times, and Farmer Jones takes it out on his animals. The prize boar-hog Old Major calls a meeting of all the animals and tells them that, while he will die of old age, the others probably won't. The farm is rich enough to support them all if they only overthrow Jones and take control - but without adopting his vices, for all animals are equal. The animals sing, cluck, bark, squeak and whinny a song of solidarity.
The next morning, the animals break into the grain store after Jones forgets to feed them. Sensing a new determination about them, Jones runs to the pub to get reinforcements. The fighting is fierce, but the humans are forced to flee. Napoleon leads the animals into Jones's house. They agree that it is no place for them - but Napoleon sneaks back inside afterwards.
The animals draw up a code of conduct: no animal shall sleep in a bed, no animal shall kill another animal, and so on, culminating in the principle that all animals are equal. The farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the animals take over the humans' farm, which becomes far more productive than before.
A meeting is held to discuss the farm's future. The pigs tabling a resolution to spread the revolutionary message to other farms. Napoleon's right-hand pig, Snowball, analyses the farm's social and power structure. Winter arrives, along with cold and shortages. Snowball devises a plan involving the animals working more and eating less, but the outcome will be electricity, heat, light and general luxury. Napoleon dismisses this as fantasy and sets his minions to drive Snowball into exile.
Napoleon adopts the fat pig Squealer as his mouthpiece and denounces Snowball as a traitor. Abolishing collective meetings, he says he will look after the animals' interests. A windmill is constructed, working the animals to exhaustion. However, they get less food than the pigs, who claim they need it for their brainpower. The animals discover that the pigs have moved into the farmer's old house and are sleeping in the bed. This contradicts one of the farm's edicts, but the animals decide they've interpreted it wrongly when the words "with sheets" are added.
A trader named Whymper starts doing business with Napoleon. Squealer announces that the chickens will produce eggs for consumption, but they rebel, causing Napoleon to summon his minions. At a show trial, animals are sent into exile, and the words "without cause" are added to the edict about them not killing each other. Napoleon announces that the revolution is complete - and the revolutionary song is banned.
More years pass. The Revolution is forgotten. The farm prospers, but only the pigs are better off than they were. Pig delegates from far and wide arrive at Animal Farm to celebrate the coming of a new era. The other animals stand outside reading a new sign: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
The other animals now cannot tell the difference between Napoleon and Farmer Jones. Casting aside their belief in a utopian future to relieve their present suffering, they march on the farmhouse...
Now, substitute in the above story personalities who are citizens of Djelibeybi. Doesn't the story suddenly look a lot like the current state of affairs in the KCC?
The usurping of power, constant revolution and counter-revolution, the ability to buy titles (shades of Blair's Britain), the cosyness of the people in power who subjugate the rest of the citizenry. The officials of the KCC keep the people crushed under their despotic heels, interpreting revolutionary activity for their own ends, and continue to farm mushrooms (that's you! - the common man and woman in the Bazaar).
Who knows what will be next. Perhaps Brave New World.
"Notte ayn Mushroom"
Page 10
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Melon Farm
By Fane Slanning.
Synopsis:
Manor Farm has fallen on hard times, and Farmer Jones takes it out on his animals. The prize boar-hog Old Major calls a meeting of all the animals and tells them that, while he will die of old age, the others probably won't. The farm is rich enough to support them all if they only overthrow Jones and take control - but without adopting his vices, for all animals are equal. The animals sing, cluck, bark, squeak and whinny a song of solidarity.
The next morning, the animals break into the grain store after Jones forgets to feed them. Sensing a new determination about them, Jones runs to the pub to get reinforcements. The fighting is fierce, but the humans are forced to flee. Napoleon leads the animals into Jones's house. They agree that it is no place for them - but Napoleon sneaks back inside afterwards.
The animals draw up a code of conduct: no animal shall sleep in a bed, no animal shall kill another animal, and so on, culminating in the principle that all animals are equal. The farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the animals take over the humans' farm, which becomes far more productive than before.
A meeting is held to discuss the farm's future. The pigs tabling a resolution to spread the revolutionary message to other farms. Napoleon's right-hand pig, Snowball, analyses the farm's social and power structure. Winter arrives, along with cold and shortages. Snowball devises a plan involving the animals working more and eating less, but the outcome will be electricity, heat, light and general luxury. Napoleon dismisses this as fantasy and sets his minions to drive Snowball into exile.
Napoleon adopts the fat pig Squealer as his mouthpiece and denounces Snowball as a traitor. Abolishing collective meetings, he says he will look after the animals' interests. A windmill is constructed, working the animals to exhaustion. However, they get less food than the pigs, who claim they need it for their brainpower. The animals discover that the pigs have moved into the farmer's old house and are sleeping in the bed. This contradicts one of the farm's edicts, but the animals decide they've interpreted it wrongly when the words "with sheets" are added.
A trader named Whymper starts doing business with Napoleon. Squealer announces that the chickens will produce eggs for consumption, but they rebel, causing Napoleon to summon his minions. At a show trial, animals are sent into exile, and the words "without cause" are added to the edict about them not killing each other. Napoleon announces that the revolution is complete - and the revolutionary song is banned.
More years pass. The Revolution is forgotten. The farm prospers, but only the pigs are better off than they were. Pig delegates from far and wide arrive at Animal Farm to celebrate the coming of a new era. The other animals stand outside reading a new sign: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
The other animals now cannot tell the difference between Napoleon and Farmer Jones. Casting aside their belief in a utopian future to relieve their present suffering, they march on the farmhouse...
Now, substitute in the above story personalities who are citizens of Djelibeybi. Doesn't the story suddenly look a lot like the current state of affairs in the KCC?
The usurping of power, constant revolution and counter-revolution, the ability to buy titles (shades of Blair's Britain), the cosyness of the people in power who subjugate the rest of the citizenry. The officials of the KCC keep the people crushed under their despotic heels, interpreting revolutionary activity for their own ends, and continue to farm mushrooms (that's you! - the common man and woman in the Bazaar).
Who knows what will be next. Perhaps Brave New World.
"Notte ayn Mushroom"