George Orwell presents a cyclical model of society in Animal Farm. Starting in a state of oppression of the majority by a minority, there is next an overthrow of the minority by revolution, resulting in everyone equal in wealth and status. One group (the pigs) is constituted to always want and work to get more, no matter how much they have, or what it does to others. Eventually they become so rich, and everyone else so exploited, that there is a revolution, and the cycle starts over.
Evidence Of Greed In Recent History:
1. The Great Depression - The stock market crash was rigged. People like Joe Kennedy made millions and millions of dollars by selling short. Then, after the world economy collapsed, they bought things at rock-bottom prices, or for nothing in some cases (foreclosure), and then things inched upward slowly. Kennedy increased his fortune from $51.3 million in 1929 to $2.88 billion by 1935 (figures are in today's dollars).
2. The Holocaust - A small, highly wealthy minority was substantially exterminated and their assets were confiscated.
3. World War II - During the 1930's two powers competed for global domination: the U.S. and Germany. The U.S.S.R. and Japan weren't that competitive. The people of the U.S. and Germany didn't want war, but they were manipulated by their establishments into being motivated by fear to go to war. The Nazis set fire to the Reichstag and said the Communists did it, so you better go with us before Germany is taken over by Communists. Roosevelt provoked the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor so that Americans would accept a war against Japan. The real reason was to get the U.S. geared up to fight the strongest rival (Germany). The Germans were developing the A-bomb and a missile technology to deliver it. After the war their guys like Wernher von Braun were put to work to develop U.S. rocket technology. After Germany and Japan were conquered, their assets were substantially confiscated and their social structures altered to keep them down.
4. The Cold War (or The War Against Communism) - In 1949 the U.S.S.R. gained a nuclear weapon capacity, enabling it to compete with the U.S. for global economic exploitation (in the names of communism and democracy, respectively). The presidency of JFK (1-20-61 to 11-22-63) was an obstacle to the U.S. military-industrial complex's progress in achieving dominance over the U.S.S.R. I will describe that in Part 2.
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