• cygon@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I don’t know why this is collecting downvotes. It’s a reference to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”

      Context: “Animal Farm” is a story about how communism can devolve into dictatorship. In the story, the animals on a farm drive out their tyrannical drunkard farmer. They write on the barn wall: “all animals are equal.” and live in communist utopia. Over time, some animals (the pigs) hunger for power and status. Rather then overturn the system, they undermine it by adding “…but some animals are more equal than others.” to the barn wall, legitimizing a ruling class (themselves) because they are “more equal.”