Here is a list in case you missed any:
26 pieces – Animal Farm, LOTR, 1984, Brave New World, Plato, Rousseau, Voltaire, The Odyssey, Network, Demolition Man, Aristotle, Tocqueville, Marcus Aurelius, Monte Cristo, Epicurus, Idiocracy, The Little Prince, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Hayek, Bastiat, What You See and Don’t, The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment, Greek Gods, Citizen Vigilante and now Star Wars.
And then there are the pieces on communism.
Each one is a different angle on the same argument…
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Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:
1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur…
2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer.
3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs.
4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back.
When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds.
The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product.
5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave.
6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object.
7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it.
The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…
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Did you know that The Lord of the Rings was about communism?
(Maybe when you come from Poland, every evil looks like communism to you…:)
1. The Ring is not a weapon. It is the totalitarian temptation itself – the promise that this time, the right person wielding absolute power will finally produce the good outcome. Even heroes in the book are tempted by this argument. Gandalf refuses it, Aragorn refuses it, but it is the most seductive argument in politics. It is always wrong.
2. The Shire is where the story begins and where it must return. Hobbits grow their own food, smoke their own pipe-weed, own their gardens, and nobody tells them what a second breakfast should look like. This is not naivety – it is civilization at its most honest. Which is precisely why the system cannot leave it alone.
3. The Eye sees everything – not because it is omnipotent, but because enough servants are watching on its behalf. The Nazgûl are the secret police: former kings, once free and powerful, who accepted rings of power and became hollow enforcers. They did not fall suddenly. Each one made a reasonable accommodation, then another, until nothing remained inside the armor. The surveillance state does not need cameras everywhere. It needs people who have already sold themselves, and have nothing left to lose by selling others.
4. Saruman is the most sinister villain in the book – the brilliant intellectual who studied power so long and so closely that he decided he might as well have some. The collaborator. The man who convinced himself that managing the evil was smarter than opposing it, and ended up running a small franchise of it in the Shire.
5. The Shire gets collectivized. This is the chapter Western readers most want to skip – because it means that ignoring the darkness while it was distant did not protect the things that were close and dear. It came home anyway, wearing the face of bureaucratic administration: no private gardens, no excess, enforced sharing, small men with clipboards and new rules. Sharkey — the defeated Saruman — cannot create anything anymore. He can only administrate, regulate, and ruin. This is what the system looks like when it has already lost everywhere else.
6. Gollum is what the system produces when it finds someone useful. He serves the Ring completely, calls it his precious, and has long since forgotten what he was before it. He is not evil – he is consumed. The system doesn’t need to destroy you. It just needs you to need it more than you need yourself.
7. The Ring must be destroyed, not used. Not reformed, not redirected, not wielded by a better person for better ends. This is Tolkien’s most radical political statement: some instruments of total power cannot be turned to good purposes. They must be unmade. Every generation has to rediscover this, because the argument for just one more ring, in the right hands, for the right reasons, never stops sounding reasonable to some people…
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George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949 as a warning.
On January 22, 1984, Apple aired the most famous advertisement in history – a woman throwing a hammer at Big Brother on a screen. Steve Jobs saw the totalitarian threat clearly. He was just wrong about who it was.
1. Orwell’s world runs on the boot, the telescreen, the memory hole. The Ministry of Truth rewrites the past. The Ministry of Love breaks the individual. The telescreen watches constantly. Winston Smith is crushed not for what he did but for what he thought – for maintaining, in secret, a small private relationship with reality. The system doesn’t want your compliance. It wants your soul. The boot on the face is not the destination. It is the maintenance procedure.
2. On January 22, 1984, Apple aired sixty seconds that changed advertising forever. A grey crowd of identical people stares at a screen showing Big Brother. A woman in bright colors runs in, throws a hammer, the screen explodes, the crowd blinks. “On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984.”
Jobs saw it: IBM was Big Brother, corporate conformity was the enemy, the personal computer was liberation. He was right about the diagnosis. He was wrong about the cure.
3. The totalitarian impulse didn’t die with Stalin. It migrated – from states into corporations, from gulags into terms of service, from Pravda into algorithms, from the Ministry of Truth into content moderation policies. But the crucial upgrade is this: it is no longer one enemy with one face. It is a coalition. The state provides regulation and legitimacy. The media provides the narrative. Big Tech provides the infrastructure, the surveillance, and the enforcement. Each lends the others cover. None of them is Big Brother alone. Together they are something more precise and more comprehensive than anything Orwell imagined.
4. The platforms decide what can be said. The regulators decide what the platforms must suppress. The media decides what is misinformation. The banks decide who can be monetized. Each institution acts within its own guidelines, following its own procedures, sending its own two-sentence explanation. No single villain. No single ministry. A distributed system of control in which everyone is just doing their job, the result is total, and there is no address to appeal to.
5. Orwell’s telescreen watches everyone the same way. The upgrade is personalization: the algorithm doesn’t broadcast one reality to the grey crowd – it constructs a bespoke reality for each individual, calibrated to their specific psychology, their particular weaknesses, their exact emotional pressure points. Room 101 is now personal. Big Brother knew what you did. The algorithm knows what you want, what you fear, and exactly how long to show it to you before you stop feeling anything.
6. Orwell gave us the boot. Huxley gave us the soma. The device in your pocket unified the project: the pleasure mechanism and the control mechanism in the same glass rectangle, always connected, always watching, always personalizing the next piece of content to keep you exactly engaged enough to remain and exactly distracted enough not to notice. You are not the customer. You are the product, the raw material, and the end consumer of your own manipulation simultaneously.
7. Jobs was right that the threat was corporate conformity, not Soviet tanks. He was right that the personal computer was a liberation technology — for about fifteen minutes. Then the liberation technology became the most efficient control infrastructure ever built, staffed by people who voted for the right causes, filed the right diversity reports, and mean extremely well. The woman who threw the hammer became the system that runs the hammer factory, with the state as the silent partner and the media as the public relations department. 1984 was not a warning. It was a schedule. Orwell was forty years early. Apple & Co. were exactly on time.
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The Brave New World made simple:
1. The World State’s motto is Community, Identity, Stability. These words are lies. There is no community – only interchangeable units. No identity – it is assigned before birth and conditioned before thought. Stability is the only honest word, because stability is the only actual goal, and everything else was sacrificed to achieve it.
2. Mustapha Mond, the Controller, has read Shakespeare. He has read the Bible. He has read everything that was ever great or true or painful about being human – and he locked it in a safe and runs the system anyway. He is not a true believer. He is the man who knows exactly what he buried and considers it a reasonable trade. He is the fattest pig, with better manners and a longer bookshelf.
3. The conditioning doesn’t break you. It makes you enjoy your cage. This is the upgrade from every previous tyranny – you don’t need guards if the prisoner has been engineered, from conception, to find the cell comfortable. Soma — the drug that makes obedience pleasant — is just the maintenance dose. The real work was done before anyone was born.
4. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” – the most totalitarian sentence ever dressed as liberation. It does not mean you are free to love everyone. It means you are forbidden to love anyone in particular. Depth, loyalty, grief, true love — all the things that make a person irreplaceable to another person — are the first things the system removes, because they are the first things that would make you resist it.
5. The man born outside the system — the Savage — asks for the right to be unhappy. To be cold, dirty, afraid, and alive in the full sense. Mond grants him, graciously, that the right exists – and explains, patiently, why no one wants it anymore. This is presented as a debate. It is not a debate. It is a man explaining to a relic why relics are no longer made.
6. Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, the Savage – all three feel that something is missing. None of them can fully name it. This is precise: the system doesn’t suppress the hunger, it removes the vocabulary for it. You cannot demand what you cannot describe. You cannot mourn what you have been engineered not to know you lost.
7. Huxley’s message: Orwell feared they would ban the books. Huxley feared no one would want to read them. The boot on the face is easy to recognize and resist. The silly entertainment — the soma tablet, the orgy-porgy, the centrifugal bumble-puppy — these are harder, because they feel like enough, and by the time they don’t, you no longer have the words for what’s missing. The most complete tyranny is the one that makes abolishing itself unthinkable. Not forbidden. Unthinkable.
"You will own nothing and be happy"
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