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Animal Farm Wasn’t Just About Russia. It Was About Mutual Benefit.

By Md Ashikur Rahman

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Napoleon didn’t plan to betray in the beginning, I argue if he can think of that word afterall. I don’t think he imagined himself sitting with humans, playing cards and shit, when he started messing with Snowball. But he did it anyway.

“Animal Farm” is mostly famous because it is broadly related with governmental matters. I believe the pattern and model shown here are insanely true regardless of any political philosophy, as it indirectly roasts Russia according to some, but it is way more relevant to the world, in such a broad way.

Let’s talk about MUTUAL BENEFIT. Yes, I’d summarize the whole fiction or whatever, with these two words. Why? Take a moment and have a glance at your memory, the turns, details and situations come in your mind, think of them. You should notice all of these are binded by these two words.

Napoleon was excellent at business, I bet nobody can doubt that. But why the hell does everyone consider himself as the villain? Well that’s the game of MUTUAL BENEFIT. Look around, you will see this pattern everywhere in your life, the leaders criticized and disliked by intellectuals, do you like them? What about his business, honestly? Is Donald Trump bad at business? Well, is Mark Zuckerberg bad at business? At his job? Elon Musk? Is he?


No, right? Let’s dive the game of Mutual Benefit a bit deeper, with the very desiring question, “Why we don’t like them, but somehow still in power. In short, the chapter “WHY?”.

We say they all are corrupt, they are traitors, greedy, murderers, liars and some kinda nonsense shit. Yes they really are, but why do they do those? What exactly is there to deal with in general people and make them hate?

You should remember when Napoleon first decided to interact with humans, to trade, to be benefited, beyond their commandants. That was situation wise fine, but you can’t say it wasn’t a pile of human gambling. In terms of growth, it was needed, partially, maybe. And the rest of the steps were a byproduct or more precisely part of it. Those were needed for the development and expansion of their empire, again maybe, obviously some tough calls from Napoleon. That is how business works, maybe! And that is how power grows. I don’t have words to define this model exactly, but it is as it is. We can’t do anything, if we do, the same thing repeats. Why repeat? Because eventually they wanna do business, and getting successful in business is all about applying the science of mutual benefit, a more harder way, and it hurts, to the civilians. Why business then? Well, do you think any other replacement in order to grow? I don’t think so. Again, why seek for success in trade, I know you got your answer. From Mark’s perspective, it was necessary to mess up with his co-founder, but was it nice? Not in that way. It’s not fair at least. Just the way Napoleon wasn’t a fair leader, he was just some sort of power greed and traitor, no objection to that!

Everyone is right from their position, but for the position of humanity? I doubt there any mentally well human being can have dissent.

I don’t claim myself right here, I welcome you to leave your insight, challenge my words, I’m always up for open discussions. As this must be one of the biggest and most debatable arguments in human history. Still exploring these things, I’m really looking forward to taking back any of my arguments if I get any better and more acceptable one. I just started reading 1984. I admire Orwell, this man is crazy about capturing patterns. Maybe I will come up with that review also, but I would prefer this to real life analysis, taking insight from books instead of just book review, but yes I strongly suggest you read this masterpiece. I am not a writer, but an overthinker. Never even wrote any sort of journal, have tons of messy words in my mind. Recently I have been considering starting writing my thoughts, as part of that why not share with you guys? At least I got a bunch of people to discuss and polish my ideas. I hope I will continue writing.

Thank you people!

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