Author: D. Marolla

"Whoever says that he 'belongs to his time' is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Animal Farm: Leverage

by D. Marolla


We will begin with the “Tiny Dot” video from last class.

Next, we will read pages 68-71 and finish Chapter 6 in Animal Farm.

Intelligent Paragraph or 2 Homework:

  • **Please relate the “Tiny Dot” video to what you’re seeing in Animal Farm, particularly with the fact that it is the pigs who not only rule, but do much less work than the other animals.  This is another example of LEVERAGE.**
  • **Then relate Napoleon’s reaction (who he blames) to the “Truth in 5 Minutes” video below.**

Use this modern day comparison please to analyze and connect a modern day example to the Pigs:

911 Truth in 5 Minutes (Censored from YouTube years ago):

If the video won’t play, you can find it here:

https://odysee.com/@TruthVault:0/911-The-truth-in-5-minutes:2

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Animal Farm: POWER

by D. Marolla

The end of Chapter 5 has a few deep points summarized at the end.  We will discuss these:

Please answer the 5 questions below, using the most intense level of analysis in your intellectual arsenal:

Videos for discussion, and connection to Animal Farm:

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Animal Farm: The First Break

by D. Marolla

Here is an early failure in the system of Animalism (Socialism / Communism):

Explain what is happening with Mollie.  What is going on with her.  Why do you think she’s not going along with Animalism?

Please look up and define the words – 7 of them are done for you.

We will begin reading Chapter 5 today.

Here is a video of Mollie leaving the farm:

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Animal Farm: Indoctrinate

by D. Marolla

Today we will begin with the ways in which the Herd is intellectualy managed.  This video is ‘age restricted’.  We will guess why after we watch it:

Let’s review the 3 steps from last session’s video:

  1. Indoctrinate – the object of today’s video.
  2. Get people to argue among themselves – divide and conquer.
  3. Create an external enemy to ‘fight’ against.

We wil read Chapter 4.  Please answer the following 5 questions:

Animal Farm: On the (Tax) Farm

by D. Marolla

We will begin with and discuss this video:

Let’s review the SEVEN Commandments of Animalism:

  1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
  2. Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings, is a friend.
  3. No animal shall sleep in a bed
  4. No animal shall drink alcohol.
  5. No animal shall kill other animal.
  6. No animal shall wear clothes.
  7. All animals are equal.

Explain, in your opinion, what’s the meaning of this bit of foreshadowing (30 points):

“What is going to happen to all that milk” said someone.

Animal Farm: Setting the Stage

by D. Marolla

Old Major

Old Major is Mr Jones’ prize boar. He gathers all the animals together in the big barn to make a speech. He tells the animals that mankind and Mr Jones are the ‘enemy’, it is their fault that the animals’ lives are miserable. He points out how cruel the men are to the animals – consuming without producing. He says that one day a rebellion will come – the animals will overthrow mankind and live in harmony.

Old Major is very intelligent, well-respected, an excellent speaker and an inspiration to the animals. He ends his speech by teaching the animals a song called Beasts of England. It is about a time when animals are free and humans are overthrown. He dies shortly after giving his speech and the other pigs take what they learnt from him and create ‘Animalism’, a set of rules for animals to live by.

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(30 points) Analyze Old Major’s rhetoric.  How does his word usage tug at the emotions of the animals?  What are the key words he uses to get them to feel the way he wants? Explain in a coherent, complex 12th grade level paragraph please.

  • “Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems.”
  • “Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work day and night, body and soul for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you comrade: Rebellion!”

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Links:

Australia:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/australian-mp-says-unvaccinated-people-need-be-controlled-and-restricted

 PJW Video, “Us and Them”


Animal Farm: THE DYSTOPIAN NOVEL

by D. Marolla


Learning Target: Creating societal division in order to rule.

Assignment: Please provide a short definition for each vocabulary word (7 are done for you)

The Hunger Games: Trailer:

Reading:

  • Glenn Greenwald’s “The Masking of the Servant Class”.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-masking-of-the-servant-class

Animal Farm –

  • Back cover
  • Author Bio
  • Begin Chapter 1

500 Years Ago the Aztec Empire FELL to Cortes and SPAIN

by D. Marolla

500 years ago yesterday, August 13th, 1521, everything changed.

The reigning superpower in Central America, the Aztec Empire, fell to Cortes.  It took him around 2 years to do it, and it took his military and political genius, as well as the unheralded engineering genius of Martin Lopez to take town Tenochtitlan, the capital city.  Tenochtitlan is known today as Mexico City.

My introduction to the topic was Victor Davis Hanson’s Carnage and Culture.

It begins like this, and I highly recommend the book:

For a look at the event from the other side, another book I read and recommend highly is The Broken Spears.  The Aztec accounts were not forthcoming until a decade or so later.  This book is a collection of various sources, from the Indigenous side, and is therefore invaluable as an historical perspective:

Because Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) was an island city in the middle of Lake Texcoco, Cortez, with the help of Martin Lopez, wound up winning by using naval power.  It is an incredible story:

Next on my list are the two books by C. Gardner, noted above by VDH in his chapter on the topic.  Martin Lopez carried out what would be considered impossible by many.  
This is the book on the engineering and project management masterpiece that changed the world in which we live:

More difficult to find, but it’s out there, is the book on Martin Lopez himself, by the same author.  I found both on Abe Books:

As the Prometheans work hard to take down all aspects of the west, including basic freedoms and civil rights, it’s important to see why.  When you have a short, poorly schooled but well read man like Hernan Cortes, and an unsung, nearly historically invisible man like Martin Lopez able to change the course of human history, you can see why “They” don’t want a country like these United States, or any country buttressed by Western Culture to exist.

500 years ago the world saw something incredible: a strong and determined Aztec Empire fall.  Analyzing the event’s politics, culture, engineering and personalities is an amazing educational exercise.  It is more necessary now more than ever to study the event, as the Forces who have been battling the Good, the Beautiful and the True are working overtime even as I type this to ruin Western Culture.

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What Can We Learn from Non-Fiction? QUIZ

by D. Marolla

Learning Target: What life lessons can be gotten from Non-Fiction?

Please answer / react to the article “Master Teacher, Envious System” and the movie “Stand and Deliver”.

30 point QUIZ: Use both sources please – the article and the movie (NFLX & AMZN) – when answering the 3 questions.

  1. Explain what Jaime Escalante was able to do. Describe the process and the difficulties he faced using quotes / evidence / examples from the text.
  2. According to Escalante, what was necessary for high-end learning? What were some of the successful ingredients?
  3. Describe the destructive force of envy presented in the article. How, in your opinion, should Escalante have been treated? (use quotes and evidence from the article please)

Jaime Escalante Tribute:

Jaime Escalante on School, Teachers, and Teaching:

A Newscast About Jaime Escalante’s Life:

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