Pink Floyd - Animals
Why start here? This blog was originally meant as a way for me to write about the books I have most recently read — and what I learn from them — so why start with a music record? Especially this one, which I first heard when I was 17 years old — in 2003, 23 years ago. Because this record is interconnected with a specific theme — the Russian October Revolution and its aftermath — that pervades many of the books I have recently read: Breve História Europeia by Raquel Varela and Os Subterrâneos da Liberdade by Jorge Amado (one might argue the same applies to the book I am currently reading, La colmena by Camilo José Cela (the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War), Martin Luther King: An Autobiography by Clayborne Carson (the US civil rights movement and its aftermath), and, derived from this, Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized ). So what does Animals have to do with the October Revolution? It is a record based on George Orwell's book Animal Farm , which was meant as a metaph...