G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

PART III
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
United Nations Capture of the American Mind
On a dark scene in a dark time of troubles, New York's guest, the UN is proclaiming, by
deed as well as word, that men can live not by violence and brute strength, but, at last, by
reason and law.
Adlai Stevenson, March 2, 1961
CHAPTER ELEVEN: ANIMAL FARM
Some years ago George Orwell wrote a brilliant satire on twentieth-century collectivism
entitled Animal Farm. It is the story of a revolution staged by the animals on Farmer
Jones's place. The animals considered themselves workers being exploited by nonproductive
humans--the capitalists. They reasoned that once the entire farm was turned
over to the workers they would all live better and not have to work so hard.
As with all revolutions, there were leaders and there were followers--mostly the latter. On
Animal Farm, the leadership was cheerfully provided by the pigs who hastened to point
out that they were, through no fault of the others, a little smarter than the rest.
One of the first official acts of the new regime was to draft a statement of seven great
principles which were then painted on the back wall of the barn for all to see. These
principles became the basis of the new order and were designed to protect the animals
from any future injustice or infringement on their rights. There were such noble
pronouncements as, "No animal shall drink alcoholic beverages"; "No animal shall sleep in
a bed"; and "No animal shall kill another animal." But the greatest and wisest of all was the
seventh great principle which read: "All animals are equal."
As the months slowly turned into years, however, things did not turn out quite the way the
"workers" had expected. They were working twice as hard and eating half as well as they
had when they were "exploited" by Farmer Jones. The one significant exception, of
course, was the ruling clique of pigs who were now living very well indeed. In fact they had
moved right into Jones's house where they had been seen drinking Jones's ale and
sleeping in Jones's bed! When the puzzled workers went to the rear of the barn to see if
there was not something in the seven great principles prohibiting this kind of conduct, they
found that a few changes bad been made: "No animal shall drink alcoholic beverages . . .
to excess"; "No animal shall sleep in a bed . . . with sheets." Even the important sixth
principle now read, "No animal shall kill another animal . . . without cause." But by far the
worst shock came when the poor creatures turned with hope to the seventh and greatest
of all the principles, which now declared, "All animals are equal . . . but some animals are
more equal than others"!
In this allegory, Orwell has exposed one of the universal devices of demagoguery--the use
of high-sounding phrases to appeal to the noble aspirations of well-intentioned but
unenlightened followers. It has been used with success from the very beginning of
recorded history. But the device has been expanded and refined during recent years to
the point where it is now perhaps the most important single item in the Communist bag of