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Post by shadow on Mar 27, 2021 8:57:02 GMT
Get a cup of tea and a spare half hour for a read of the Resumption of Football thread on the official. There is a discussion regarding the Women’s team where the chairman has been compared to Napoleon out of Animal Farm.
Many of the chairman’s replies resort to personal slurs and a resume of how much work he puts in to running the Club. How dare anyone criticise him?
Being an uneducated illiterate myself I had to remind myself about the character of Napoleon. A quick google supplied this:-
“From the very beginning of the novella, Napoleon emerges as an utterly corrupt opportunist. Though always present at the early meetings of the new state, Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolution—not to the formulation of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, not to the new society’s initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies. He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army or secret police, a violent means by which he imposes his will on others.”
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Post by thunderwing on Apr 30, 2021 10:19:34 GMT
Napoleon. Sounds very pre 2015 to me before all the fraudsters, comedians and charlatans were outed. Long live the the putsch. I'll say it again - long live the putsch. HOOOOOOOOOOORAH. Walsh and Brown envelope must be livid with you comparing them to Orwells character.
Carry on GOOGLING. Here's a good one for you "BETRAYAL OF PRINCIPLES".
See you all at the game to welcome home a couple of well tarnished anti heroes....................................
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Post by shadow on Apr 30, 2021 13:19:43 GMT
Weird.
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Post by shadow on May 20, 2021 20:18:53 GMT
“ He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army or secret police, a violent means by which he imposes his will on others.” Well, well.
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Post by thunderwing on May 21, 2021 9:55:38 GMT
“ He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army or secret police, a violent means by which he imposes his will on others.” Well, well. well well well - Napoleon was well aware of the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food situation were known, and he decided to make use of Mr. Whymper to spread a contrary impression. Hitherto the animals had had little or no contact with Whymper on his weekly visits: now, however, a few selected animals, mostly sheep, were instructed to remark casually in his hearing that rations had been increased. In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the store-shed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins. He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm.
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