We reserve the right to ARM BEARS...
Green BEARets
Look out, NRA...
Blogger bearing his soles...
GRATEFUL DEAD U
School Bus
OK...Enuf lookin' at pictures...Class, it's time to do some READING...Hey, Class are you listening...Are you still awake?
Your assignment...
ANIMAL FARM SONGS
Artist: Jason Mraz
Animator: Stan Smeets
Uhh...Wait a minute...We have rights, too!!!
Reader: These next two videos contain disturbing, graphic images of cruelty...
PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Animal Farm
(from the article) Animal Farm, anti-utopian satire by George Orwell, published in 1945. One of Orwell’s finest works, it is a political fable based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters and set up an egalitarian society of their own. Eventually the animals’ intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution. Concluding that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (with its addendum to the animals’ seventh commandment: “All animals are equal”), the pigs form a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters.
Full animated versions are available online. Here are two short video clips of songs followed by a video with background on the author.
--Don't be tempted to read anything into the fact that a donkey is leading the revolution