How it all makes sense now...

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it" - George Orwell, -quoted in the Associated Press

Now there's something to simmer on after the ups and downs of the last two weeks and the upcoming election.  I remember having to read Orwell's "Animal Farm" in eight grade.  I admit I only read the Cliff's notes at the time.  I wasn't much of a reader back then. Prefered basketball and video gaming.  I read it again in college. And I have revisited it many times since. I'd like to make a video game of Animal Farm one day...

From wiki:

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the aka George Orwell, was an English writer.

His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. He wrote works in many different genres including fiction, polemics, journalism, memoir and critical essays, but his most famous works are two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).