John Steelwell
It would be a new era. A new Farm. “So, what do you want?” Martius asked. “I want a revolution against Farm’s backward ways. I want a peaceful revolution of our values, for those poor souls that hunger in our free Farm and to stand up for those like Daiser. I want to revolt against those who are oppressed like him. A revolution for those poor farm animals born in the hides of the wrong farm animal.” Gallant replied. What would this revolt, this “revolution” entail? What would it bring? What would it change? In light of hardship, struggle and chaos, anything goes. It was going to be a “revolution” without substance. Stumbling on its own principles, not aimed at the reasons why the Farm became what it was, but rather this new age revolution found its own reasons. It accommodated reality to justify its failure to undertake a struggle for the farm animals and to bring meaningful change. The communal egalitarians could not bring meaningful results, so they invented their own goals that didn’t require a quantified outcome. It was a revolution that created its own synthetic goals to satisfy the need for change, without changing anything. It was a revolution not to remove the order the pigs have created. Instead, this was a revolution to accustom the farm animals to the pigs’ hegemony. Knowing that the pigs could not be targeted, they target something else to satisfy their bottled-up sense of injustice. With their vector poised at the “new age” and “progressive values,” this revolution targeted those much weaker. They targeted the farm animals. The communal egalitarians didn’t target the pigs. The revolution led by Gallant would not achieve anything except to further fortify the instigators of the Farm’s demise. A revolution without a revolt would allow Martius to exploit the hopes of the Farm animals and let their discontent be redirected. His resources would only facilitate the pigs. Their grip on technology, information and labour were his tools. He had to look after his
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