Well, maybe it’s “1984″ again.
The thematic likenesses between Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm are: the betrayed revolution; the person’s subordination to the Party collective; the rigorously enforced class distinctions among Party members, i.e. the Inner Party, the Outer Party, the Proletariat; the Cult of Personality; concentration camps; Thought Police; compulsory, regimented, daily exercise; the youth leagues.
As in the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, propaganda is pervasive; Smith’s job is rewriting historical documents to match the contemporaneous party line, the orthodoxy of which changes daily. He re-writes and re-prints newspaper articles (society’s official records) to delete from the collective memory all people rendered unpersons by Party order
Unfortunately….the comparisons are chilling. The propaganda by the deadwood media to match the party line…utilizing distortions, faked photographs, forged documents. The Cult of Personality, where hopey-changey meets abracadabra. The Person’s subordination to the Socialist Party…where ANY straying from the Party line is met with ferocity and venom in extremis. (see, ie Joe Lieberman).
It’s 1984 again…and this is Carter’s Revenge.
