Animal Farm
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think atobe included this link in one of the threads.
quite a long story, but nice to read.
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html -
orh this one!
sec 2 compulsory to buy
is about pigs wanna dominate farm rite?
den the animals betray him and such -
George Orwell must have been a genius to foresee this regime's destiny (the plot was supposed to reflect the Bolsheviks' Revolution in establishing the USSR) as the plot seems to run in tandem with what is witnessed today - for "Old Major" read the British; "Napoleon" is best encapsulated by the fascists in power...Originally posted by gigabyte14:orh this one!
sec 2 compulsory to buy
is about pigs wanna dominate farm rite?
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The pigs weren't betrayed. They warped the rules that were originally set out, the most famous being 'all aminals are equal, but some are more equal than others'. And they soon became indistinguishable from the humans they replaced.
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Haven read but can u answer me this question ... Izzit an analogy? A dig at govt or something?
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It's a dig at the way communism had deviated in practice from the original ideals.
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I FUCKING LOVE THIS STORY!!!!11 IT WAS WHY I TOOK UP LITERATURE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!111
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Somehow all 3-lettered acronyms seem to perfect the art of "double speak" - in the Animal Farm, those PIGs led a revolution in freeing themselves from the tyranny of the Farmer - and condemned all who walked on 2-legs as their enemy (except for those that has wings instead of hands).
Somehow, when time passes by, those 'EXTRA-ORDINARY' PIGs seem to have the 'extra-ordinary talent' and began to quietly change the ground rules and began to walk on their hind legs, and took over the Farmer's House.
In our REAL WORLD, some scenes seems to be a replay of Georgie's writing of the Animal Farm, with our supreme leader first taking office in a modest room in City Hall, and as time passes, moved into the Istana, which used to be the residence of the Colonial Governor-General governing the British Far East Empire.
Some quotable quotes of famous 'Double Speak' Principles spoken by our Extra-Ordinary LKY seems to be a replay of George Orwell's fictitious writing but actually occurring in the same manner over time:
Lee Kuan Yew, once one of the worldÂ’s most articulate voices of freedom, had this to say in 1956 as an opposition member of Parliament:
“But either we believe in democracy or we do not. If we do, then we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from any democratic process, other than by ordinary law of the land, should be allowed. If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at naught. . .”
In a subsequent speech made when Singapore was part of the Malaysian federation, Lee articulated his feelings about freedom of the press and media.
”Let us get down to fundamentals. Is this an open or a closed society? Is it a society where men can preach ideas—the novel, unorthodox, heresies. . . where there is a constant contest for men’s hearts and minds on the basis of what is right, of what is just, or what is in the national interest? Or is it a closed society where the mass media—the newspapers, journals, publications, TV, radio. . . feed men’s minds with a constant drone of sycophantic support for a particular orthodox philosophy?”
Forty years later, in 1997, LKY remark was recorded in the aritcle Machiavelli's Tiger - Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore's authoritarian government :
'Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, IÂ’m meaningless.'
Lee Kuan Yew, Oct 6,1997
…‘I truly believe the process is Darwinian’, he says, ‘if adopting Western values diminishes the prospects for the survival of a society, they will be rejected’…
As far as Asia goes, its problems and vulnerability on the road to riches mean, in LeeÂ’s view, that Western liberal ideas are inappropriate. Individual rights will simply get in the way of social progress. Do not indulge them.
For over 45 years of independence, Singapore is no closer to the enthusiasm for a democratic Singapore espoused by a 25 year old LKY.
For over 45 years, Singaporeans have been brainwashed to provide "sycophantic support for a particular orthodox philosophy" as pronounced by the Ruling Party guided by MM LKY.
Looking back at what a 25 year old LKY had so eloquently publicly said in 1957, and comparing to what he said recently in support of increasing the ministerial wages in 2007, Singaporeans are truly caught like the animals in Animal Farm, and the PIGs are having a party in the Istana:
To establish a fair and just society where man does not exploit his fellowman, we must first end the colonial society, the result of the exploitation of the wealth of Malaya and our people by British capitalist interests. That is why the P.A.P. is vehemently anti-colonialist.
Colonialism means not only the exploitation of local man by local man, but also the exploitation of all local men by the white man.
It is only when we have ousted the British from political control that we have a chance to create a new different society with equal and fair opportunities for all to live and learn and work without exploiting their fellow men either by their greater wealth or greater talents.
After 50 years, we are now living in a society that no longer see the 'local man being exploited by the White Man' but now exist with the 'exploitation of local men by those men in White whose basic political qualifications are their EXTRA-ORDINARY talent and wealth'.
"The biggest mistake any Singaporean can make is to believe that Singapore is an ordinary country and can behave like an ordinary country like Malaysia, like Indonesia, like Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark," he was quoted by the Straits Times as saying over the weekend
"The problem we now face is how to attract more talent, how to headhunt and to persuade the best to come into parliament," -
The closest that LKY speech that made reference to Singaporeans as animals, and came near to George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was when he made this infamous statement -
"Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem.
If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs.
You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society.
We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts. "
- Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
For more fun with some clever U-Turn Speeches, visit the following : 'Rhetoric vs Reality' and 'Telling it like it is'. -
I tell you, one of these days, this book will be banned in Singapore.
Yes.
Banned.
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this book has been around like forever, also given the internet, banning it will only give it greater publicity.....fyi, the animated version of this book was shown over local media a couple of times decades ago...Originally posted by charlize:I tell you, one of these days, this book will be banned in Singapore.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Surprisingly, the book was not an easy find in any of the leading bookstores or libraries in the 1960s and through the 1970s.
I tell you, one of these days, this book will be banned in Singapore.
Yes.
Banned.
Could it have been on the prohibitted reading list during that period of political activism in both the then University of Singapore and Nantah ?
Surprisingly, this book became openly available in the mid- or late 1980s.
Will it go a full circle again, or will Singapore progress further into a true First World environment ? -
At the rate people are drawing parallels between the book and the people at the top, this book might one day be a candidate for the snip at the censors.Originally posted by Atobe:Surprisingly, the book was not an easy find in any of the leading bookstores or libraries in the 1960s and through the 1970s.
Could it have been on the prohibitted reading list during that period of political activism in both the then University of Singapore and Nantah ?
Surprisingly, this book became openly available in the mid- or late 1980s.
Will it go a full circle again, or will Singapore progress further into a true First World environment ?
Think this book was used as a textbook for literature in some schools before.
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yar. Sec 2 study before..Originally posted by gigabyte14:orh this one!
sec 2 compulsory to buy
is about pigs wanna dominate farm rite?
den the animals betray him and such -
yep. same here...Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:yar. Sec 2 study before.. -
Hmm...Originally posted by www:think atobe included this link in one of the threads.
quite a long story, but nice to read.
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html