Simple Gifts

Chapter 11, Sections 134-142

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny.

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Lines 331-505

Eve awakes from her Satan-whispered nightmare deeply troubled and anxious, telling Adam the foreshadow of her part in the Fall, and the words of the false angel of light. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Satan tells her,

"Forbidden here, it seems, as only fit/For Gods, yet able to make Gods of Men/ ... Here, happy creature, fair angelic Eve,/Partake thou also; happy though thou art,/Happier thou mayest be .../Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods/Thyself a Goddess, not to earth confined."

Thus always the proud appeal of self-aggrandizing knowledge to the rational soul, imagining for itself a utopia that denies the revealed boundaries of nature.

God sends the archangel Raphael to warn Adam of his danger. Adam and Eve entertain and feed their heavenly guest, and engage him in conversation to better understand the ways of heaven. Raphael relates the disobedience and war of the rebellious angels, telling of Satan's argument that it is not just that free souls be subject to authority, that they be bound by the will of another, and that they, too, are by rights gods - the same appeal he will use to corrupt Eve.

Satan is opposed by the angel Abdiel, calling out his rebellion and ingratitude, reaffirming the sovereignty of God, and pleading for repentance while mercy may be given. He is mocked for his allegiance, and Satan prefigures Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and the modern Hegelians, denying his Creator,

"We know no time when we were not as now;/Know none before us, self-begot, self-raised/By our own quickening power ... /Our puissance is our own; our own right hand/Shall teach us highest deeds, by proof to try/Who is our equal."

Book five closes as Abdiel flees the Apostate horde to take Satan's message and plans back to God's throne.

Paradise Lost Book 5 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else."

Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces."

"One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human."

Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream.

It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE!

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Chapters 9 and 10, Sections 123-133

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny.

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Lines 209-330

Eve awakes from her Satan-whispered nightmare deeply troubled and anxious, telling Adam the foreshadow of her part in the Fall, and the words of the false angel of light. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Satan tells her,

"Forbidden here, it seems, as only fit/For Gods, yet able to make Gods of Men/ ... Here, happy creature, fair angelic Eve,/Partake thou also; happy though thou art,/Happier thou mayest be .../Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods/Thyself a Goddess, not to earth confined."

Thus always the proud appeal of self-aggrandizing knowledge to the rational soul, imagining for itself a utopia that denies the revealed boundaries of nature.

God sends the archangel Raphael to warn Adam of his danger. Adam and Eve entertain and feed their heavenly guest, and engage him in conversation to better understand the ways of heaven. Raphael relates the disobedience and war of the rebellious angels, telling of Satan's argument that it is not just that free souls be subject to authority, that they be bound by the will of another, and that they, too, are by rights gods - the same appeal he will use to corrupt Eve.

Satan is opposed by the angel Abdiel, calling out his rebellion and ingratitude, reaffirming the sovereignty of God, and pleading for repentance while mercy may be given. He is mocked for his allegiance, and Satan prefigures Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and the modern Hegelians, denying his Creator,

"We know no time when we were not as now;/Know none before us, self-begot, self-raised/By our own quickening power ... /Our puissance is our own; our own right hand/Shall teach us highest deeds, by proof to try/Who is our equal."

Book five closes as Abdiel flees the Apostate horde to take Satan's message and plans back to God's throne.

Paradise Lost Book 5 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else."

Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces."

"One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human."

Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream.

It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE!

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Chapter 9, Sections 113-122

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny.

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