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Political metaphor? our generation's verison of animal farm?


Animal Farm is the classic George Orwell book where disguised as a children's story animals fulfill a symbolic political role.

Well I have been learning a lot about the occupation movement, the "WE ARE THE NINETY NINE PERCENT" rant, which is flawed because it implies that one in a hundred people are rich while most of us are struggling, the "rich" are actually 2 thirds of one percent or about one in one hundred and fifty people.

That scene where the evil leader of the grasshoppers showed how one seed was harmless but if he dumped a hundred seeds it would crush one of them he did to make an important point, he said that they outnumber them a hundred to one and as soon as they figure it out the grasshoppers will lose all of their advantage.

To me that is a total allegory to the occupation movement because the poor and middle class so outnumber the wealthy, out of 150 typical people you have 149 that are poor and middle class and one that is wealthy.

That scene would have had even more significance now with the occupation movement going on, though it was probably true then too.

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You're taking the whole "99% vs 1%" thing too literally. It's not about the exact percentage.

Anyway, yeah, this is about the rebellion of the masses against small bands of oppressors. It could apply to any society in history, any situation where an oppressed majority rebel against an oppressing minority. This has happened thousands of times around the world, both within countries where the masses rebel against oppressive governments, and in situations where entire oppressed countries rebel against oppressing empires.

"Couldn't care less" = "don't care at all"
"Could care less" = "care at least a little"

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