For years, beginning with movies like Babe , about a talking pig who has adventures in the big city, Tinseltown has been making it fashionable for animals to disrespect their owners and then run away. Doubters need only have seen Animal Farm , George Orwell's allegory on socialism, which aired on TNT Oct. 3 and will surely incite herds of critters to throw off their shackles and take control. The last thing Americans should support is a movie that encourages animals to revolt. Animal Farm , first published in 1946, begins with a diverse group of farm animals realizing they must overcome the dictatorship of their owner, Mr. Jones, and other humans. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. Books like this are dangerous to have around as they give farm animals bad ideas. As history shows, farm animals don't know squat about governing effectively. Heifers and steers are notoriously bad socialists, as evidenced by the Bullsheviks, Moo Tse Tung, Fidel Cowstro and Kowrl Marx.