Do you know that many dictators throughout history such as Hitler, Lenin and Castro started with the dream of Utopia. Inside each man’s heart is the dream of Utopia. That is why it feels so possible. That is how a dictator can ride the coat tails of this dream to ultimate power, upon which the dream dies the death of most childhood dreams. Yet, people who refuse to learn from history ( and idealistic young people) try again and again to make it work–ONE last time, if we are only good enough and pure enough. When I was a child, I was an avid reader. I would read one book a day. I read Animal Farm and 1984 by Orwell when I was 13. I never forgot their message which is the one I have stated above. the message is that Utopia cannot exist.
When I was in college studying Psychology, I remembered one movie the same way I remembered these books–The Milgrim Experiements. Stanley Milgrim wanted to know how “Good Germans” could get to the point to kill their fellow citizens. What was the root of what we see as societal insanity. Milgrim came to a startling conclusion and an unexpected one. However, is it really unexpected? Milgrims conclusion are that men are sheep. They will follow authority. Orwell tells is that when the pigs got into positions of authority, the rules changed from all pigs are equal to some pigs are more equal than others. This last prescient line is the mechanism that takes a dictator from a freedom fighter to an absolute and ruthless potentate. In this one line from a simple allegory about pigs, horses and farmers lies the answer to the human’s dreams of Utopia.
A lovely LL member, Kerosene , asked me why can’t there be a Utopia. He is young and this is the question of youth. The terrible thing is when older people spout platitudes about the Aquarian Age as if they are seers or more enlightened souls than the common man, when they are actually the horses in Animal Farm. Perhaps, they are not the horses in Animal Farm, as the horses were good souls. These self righteous people are actually the soil in which dictatorship rises because they won’t face my next subject, which is the reality of human nature.
I am a student of the Bible for anyone who does not know. I am a student of Bible Prophecy. Human nature is clearly explained in the Bible. Human nature is as Orwell saw it.Human nature is as Milgrim saw it. Human nature is really as the Bible saw it, which is that men are likened to sheep. Human nature, unchecked, will lead to 1984. Human nature, if left to it’s own devices, will follow the simple course set forth in Animal Farm. The reason that Utopia cannot exist is because it has humans in it.