byRichard LungAnimal Farm is pre-figured by Aesop fable The Kingdom of the Lion. This “squib” is too hot to handle for four publishers. One demurred at the betrayers of the revolution as pigs! I’d mocked “Marxism for Infants” Yet this parable is in children’s libraries. I desire to write prose clear as a window pane. As Geoffrey Chaucers Chaunticleer parodied the chivalrous romances, so did the romance of the revolution. Our love of animals delights in their naive joy at liberation from the farmer -- an impossible idealism, we still regret being betrayed, step by step, with the laughably illogical but self-serving after-thoughts like: All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. We pity the poor dumb animals, so easily confused and deceived, like a modern electorate of the “inattentive,” as Wells called them. The pig dictator is the archetypal Napoleon. His henchman, Squealer, uses informers to cow the public, as in any nasty police state. The devastation of invasion heaps sorrow upon sorrow on the Russian experiment. More than this homely satire was needed to spell out the peculiar horror of the twentieth century slave state, the arrival of a tyranny more monstrous than the world has ever known. The feudal ideal of military subservience suppresses all enterprise and brain-washes the masses with production propaganda. John Locke, on government at war with its people, said that they have the right to revolution. 1984 shows governments crush this right. A global “triopoly” perpetuates the age-old ruse of foreign wars to crush dissent within nations. This self-righteousness prevents self-correction. The world religions of a brotherhood of man are replaced by worship of “the Party.” Big Brother is all-knowing and all-powerful as a god. Big Brother is Watching You. He is never wrong and always to be obeyed. Mystifying policy changes are covered-up by destroying old news, so unreason can never be exposed. No-one learns. If democracy means anything, it means saying things that other people don’t want to hear. <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://southernpacificreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/self-portrait-RichardLung.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2476" title="self-portrait-RichardLung" src="http://southernpacificreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/self-portrait-RichardLung.jpg" alt="" width="186" height="297" /></a></td> <td> Richard Lung is educated in Social Science, Manchester, England. Brought back to nature and its poetry by Dorothy Cowlin, poet and novelist. Poems published since the 'nineties in many UK magazines, such as First Time, Poetry and Audience, New Hope International, Pennine Platform, Psychopoetica. More recently in: Cadenza, Sentinel, the Beat, Shine Journal, Kritya, Star*line, Strong Verse, Wisdom Crieth Without, Kaleidotrope, Dark Metre, Inkscrawl, and the WordAid anthologies for Save The Children and Shelterbox.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Against Dictatorship
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