Animal Farm
The Pathfinders below are intended to help you begin considering how a people’s sense of reality can be manipulated in order to control and oppress them, and how that manipulation of reality can ultimately change even the sense of reality of those who seek to manipulate it.
NOTE: The crossed out ones are not ready yet, so just ignore them.
- Who was George Orwell anyway, and why did he write like that?
What were the influences that led Orwell to write this political allegory, and what was he trying to achieve? - Communism 101
Communism and Socialism were major political movements in the 20th Century, and yet now they have largely retreated into history. What caused them to emerge, and what made them disappear?
“Communism 101″ is the one to use for Head Start - There’s nothing so hard to defeat as an idea
A government can oppress its people by force and violence, or by cleverly orchestrated manipulation of ideas. How important is propaganda in altering the reality of a people a despot wishes to control? - Lenin vs Princess Anastasia
In any revolution there must be sacrifices. Sometimes those sacrifices include sleepy teenage girls with diamonds sewn into their clothes… - Stalin vs Trotsky
What chance does an intellectual political theorist who just wants everyone in the whole world to join in a global upheaval of Everything stand in the face of a self-proclaimed Man of Steel? - What would Che do?
Time and again the world has seen Communism and Socialism fail, and fail miserably. If you were given the task of setting up an egalitarian society, how would you go about it? What rules would you decree? What would you do about dissenters?
