Did he just reference "Animal Farm" instead of "1984"
Intentionally. All Orwell, same thing. Attempted gotcha, fail.
No, not the same thing....and I don't believe for a moment you did that intentionally. You're like the cat that falls flat on its face then tries to coolly walk away like "I meant to do that, I meant to do that."
I was going with an Orwellian theme, and both are Orwell, and both have the same connotations. I have read both books recently, as I still have my copies from high school. Is it really a stretch to go from the 2 minute hate in 1984 to the bleating of the sheep in Animal Farm? Both are references to mindless conditioning, a reflex progressives seem to have whenever it comes to Fox News.
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
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Albert Einstein
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.”
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H.P. Lovecraft,
Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft