The new Animal Farm
The unfolding state of America's politics is very Orwellian. And I do mean "Animal Farm" Orwellian. Now would be a good time to read that book if you've never read it, or to read it again if you have. It is odd how old fiction tends to be prophetic. I suppose different occurrences in future times lead to different interpretations of the same fiction. The reason for this might be that the issues that drive human beings hardly change over the eons. Take for instance the view of Armageddon in the Bible. Through the ages the devout were convinced that it would happen in their lifetime because the “signs are all around us that these are the end times.” What is certain is that the seven deadly sins are today as deadly as they were before the coming of the Messiah. In Animal Farm, that point in the story where one morning the animals wake up and could swear by the soul of the departed Snowball that, while they slept, someone had amended the law scribbled on the wall, comes...