Haha. “Animal Farm”, I remember having to read that in ninth grade. Great fable, and a lot of lessons to be learned from it. It’s a shame that they weren’t learned but only separated into 2 branches of the same thing. One being Communism which is bad just because it‘s called Communism, and the Democracy which is only a softer more acceptable communism. Or I see it as masked communism. I’ll save you from the explanation of why I see it that way. Very, very long post. ;) What makes 1984 so scary to me is it was Orwell looking at what happened with the Roman Empire, and then saw the similarities with our government. Then he wrote what would happen if we followed the same path. Now here’s the scary part, it is almost dead-on. Now what happened to the Roman Empire?? The book shows you the same could happen to us, maybe even worse. If you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it. That’s why I wish that everyone in politics should read that book. If that’s not a wake up call, you must be brain-dead.