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Remember Full Metal Jacket<\/i>? \u00a0 Remember how Mathew Moldine\u2019s brave and courageous \u2018Joker\u2019 Davis bucks Sergeant Hartman\u2019s question about believing in the Virgin Mary? \u00a0Bold! \u00a0Courageous! \u00a0All about resisting tyranny of thought and opening and freeing the mind. \u00a0Bucking the system. \u00a0Being the rebel. <\/p>\n

Fast forward to today. \u00a0Who are the rebels now? \u00a0I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again, I am more and more convinced that Orwell had modern, Western liberals in mind when he wrote Animal Farm<\/i>. \u00a0I just know it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"