Books, Etc.
People often claim that Animal Farm is about how communism necessarily leads to oppression, implying that capitalism is the moral alternative— which completely ignores that in the story, the oppression the pigs brought was, explicitly, the same oppression under which the animals suffered at the beginning of the story: capitalism.
Everything your study guide didn’t tell you about Animal Farm by George Orwell.
As an animal rights activist who is also a biology student, little has weighed on me more heavily in my day-to-day life than the ubiquity of biomedical animal testing.
“Little Red Barns is a groundbreaking investigation of factory farms and the unprecedented measures being taken to hide their impact — on animals, public health, and the environment — from the public.”
I listened to this book while on a bus to New York City (at least until Spotify informed me I ran out of free audiobook listening hours, which was interesting since I literally pay that service $10 a month, but I digress). Fortunately I was able to finish it using the services of the good old-fashioned library.
It has been looking more and more likely that the future of warfare in general lies in cyberspace.
I read this book because it was recommended on my favorite podcast, Darknet Diaries!
Yes: George Orwell wrote more than just Animal Farm and 1984, in fact.
George Orwell manages to articulate why people using political buzzword salad is so annoying in one essay.