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I know there is a question: if humans could understand animals, would people still eat meat?
The answer, of course: Yes.
This question can also be thought of in reverse:
If animals could understand humans, would they overthrow human domination?
After all, animals are only resources and possessions in the eyes of humans.
It is similar to the role of humans in "The Matrix", just a charging treasure of AI.
People are not willing to be a charging treasure, so they will continue to revolt.
So, are the animals willing to be slaves and rations, and will they overthrow humans?
Novelist George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm uses this interesting setting.
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The animals of the manor farm are planning a revolution.
They want to overthrow the exploitative human rulers and establish a free and equal society belonging to the animals.
The initiator of the revolution was the most intelligent boar on the farm.
Because he won the Regional Handsome Pig Award when he was young, he was respected by everyone as "Old And Young".
He was old enough to pass on his life's wisdom to everyone before he died:
Animals have a miserable life, being enslaved when they are rich and strong, and brutally slaughtered when they are old. Human beings, on the contrary, do nothing but enjoy their success.
Only by overthrowing humans can animals turn over.
This remark ignited the fire of inner freedom of the animals, so that they could not calm down for a long time.
Within a few days, the "Old Major" was dead.
The opportunity to rebel also came.
The farmer was an alcoholic and could not remember feeding the animals for days.
The animals were hungry and broke into the feed shed to feed themselves.
When the farmer found out, a whip was whipped.
The animals could not bear it, so they drove away the farmers and the workers.
The uprising was suddenly victorious, and the farm belonged to the animals!
The animals snatched up and burned the things that the farmer had enslaved themselves, such as whips, reins, dog chains, and castrated knives.
Manor Farm was officially renamed "Animal Farm".
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In this revolution, the cleverness of pigs is indispensable, so they become the leaders of other animals.
Among them, Snowball (pig) and Napoleon (pig), especially prominent.
Snowball is good at speaking, usually describing a better future and encouraging everyone to work harder.
For example, to encourage people to build windmills to generate electricity, Snowball promised to work three days a week from now on.
Snowball gradually consolidated its position by establishing various committees.
Napoleon was more interested in the education of the next generation.
He took all nine of his newborn puppies with him and hid them to educate them secretly.
Two pigs are not tolerated on a farm, and they often argue endlessly against each other.
Snowball wanted to build a windmill, but Napoleon disagreed.
When the pups had grown into fierce dogs, Napoleon led them to drive the snowballs off the stage.
Snowball's life and death are unknown, and Napoleon becomes the only leader.
At this time, Napoleon announced that he still wanted to build windmills.
Of course, as a privileged class, the quality of life of pigs is constantly improving.
In the beginning, the milk was mixed into its own feed by pigs.
Then the order came, and the apple was also reserved for the pigs.
The diplomatic solution given by the pigs was that milk and apples had substances essential for the pigs to stay healthy, and if they could not eat them, they could not continue their mental work, and the human farmers would return.
As soon as the animals heard that they might return to their former lives, they compromised.
Pigs then began to be free from labor, and they were entitled to the privilege of wearing a ribbon on their tails every Sunday.
The piglets were not allowed to play with other small animals, they had their own school, which Napoleon himself taught.
The pigs also moved en masse into human houses.
Napoleon also found a human lawyer and started a business with humans.
One of the most favored sows even wore a skirt, which was a favorite of the former farmer's wife.
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Farms are getting richer, larger, and tools are updated.
The animals' lives are not getting better.
The work is getting harder and harder, and the rations are getting less and less.
Because there are more and more pigs and dogs that don't have to work.
Windmills that had promised to benefit animals and generate electricity were later used to exploit the animals' labor.
The eggs laid by the hens were sold by Napoleon to other farms.
The hens resisted together and flew to the wall to lay eggs, and the eggs fell and shattered.
Napoleon was so angry that he announced that all chickens would be cut off from water and food, and warned all animals not to help.
After a few days, the hens were too hungry to bear it and compromised.
This time the little riot killed many chickens, but the remaining chickens also compromised.
Not to mention the three-day-a-week workday, because Napoleon said that true happiness lies in hard work and simple life.
The question of the retirement of the animals has been completely ruined.
Take the two most industrious horses of the animals.
The boxer (horse) turned out to be a very diligent animal. After the victory of the uprising, it worked even harder.
A horse does the work of three horses, the earliest to come, the latest to go. When you are sick, you don't rest.
No matter what problems you encounter, you will face the difficulties.
Its slogans were: "I will work harder" and "Napoleon will always be right".
Eventually, after becoming seriously ill due to overwork, the horses were sold by the pigs to the slaughterhouse next door.
Alfalfa (horses) work as hard as boxers. Two years above retirement age, but not really retiring yet.
No pig cares what the animals do when they are old.
They only care about their own interests.
One day, the pigs began to learn to walk upright. And welcomed several human guests.
They communicate with each other about how to get the animals to do more work with less food.
A human said, "You have your lower animals to deal with, we have our lower classes to balance." ”
Pigs have truly become humans.
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George Orwell said: There are only three kinds of people in the world, the upper class, the middle man and the lower man.
The goal of the superiors is to maintain their status (like the humans in the book).
The goal of the middle class is to exchange status with the upper class (the pigs in the book).
The middle man flaunts his struggle for freedom and justice, wins the inferior to his side, and once the middle man has achieved their goal, pushes the inferior back to his original enslaved status (the other animals).
The inferior are the toiling masses, who have no time to look around, and occasionally take care of things other than everyday life.
There are only inferior people among the three people, and they have never achieved their goals, even temporarily.
Why?
Because they never understood the nature of things.
Luo Zhenyu said in his 2017 "Friends of Time" New Year's Eve speech, "Now, you have two choices: pay an increasingly expensive 'cognitive tax', or fight an increasingly cruel 'cognitive war'. ”
As an ordinary person, if you want not to be abandoned by the times, you can only strive to improve your cognition.
Only by seeing one's own destiny can one change one's destiny.