(See previous post entitled
Revolution )
When I took my sociology class just a few weeks ago, I didn't realize that class envy and class warfare would be so openly encouraged. Shows how naive I can be I suppose. Here are a few Google images with the "Revolution" theme:
Did you catch that one? It's subtle...let's try another that will be more blunt:
Oops! There it is! Yes, showing your anger and frustration in a revolution is a loving thing to do....ummmm...
well...not really....but maybe Ron Paul thinks so:
Catchy...
But
Musemater's post caused me to revisit this theme. It got me thinking about the Bolshevik Revolution, and for that matter, our own country's Revolutionary War of 1776 (or whenever it really was), and the Loyalists who were then branded as "the enemy"....and, come to think of it, today many Americans still look at Canadians with suspicion. The propaganda worked. But in order to look at this from both sides, let's look a little closer. I first read George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" in, well, 1984, because I was curious about what he had to say about "big brother" and I figured 1984 to be a good year to investigate these things...and now we see these things cropping up again, here, in the United States...
Hmmm, scary...
Anyway, I found
this nice comparison of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" with the Russian Revolution. See if any of it resonates with things that are happening today....