Animal Farm
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- Episode: Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastFor the critics in the stands, chanting the latest slogans of the mass hysteria machine like sheep in 'Animal Farm'. I love you too.
- Episode: CLASSIC: The Rise of the Chimera | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To KnowYeah, I know that a lot of us listening today are huge fans of Animal Farm, right? In the work of George Orwell, there is an incredibly bleak, incredibly well-written part of that book where the animals—well, quick spoiler—Animal Farm, if you are not familiar with the plot and don’t want it spoiled for you and you’ve been waiting for a chance to read it or watch one of the many adaptations, please consider this your spoiler warning.
- Episode: CLASSIC: The Rise of the Chimera | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To KnowIn the work of George Orwell, there is an incredibly bleak, incredibly well-written part of that book where the animals—well, quick spoiler—Animal Farm, if you are not familiar with the plot and don’t want it spoiled for you and you’ve been waiting for a chance to read it or watch one of the many adaptations, please consider this your spoiler warning. Alright, so in Animal Farm, the human owners of the farm, or the human authority figures of the farm, are kicked out of power, right?
- Episode: Q Anon: When Wild Conspiracy Went (sort of) Mainstream | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowI believe that is a joke reference to the book 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell. In the book, the animals use the phrase 'Four legs good, two legs bad' as they rise against the humans. That must be it, love the show, longtime listener.
- Episode: Tim Walz Talks “Weird” Republicans, Kamala Harris, and Being on the VP Shortlist
Podcast: Pod Save AmericaI picture some guys, you know they always do the oh, the guys sitting in a racine bar, you know, what's really concerning them? I damn sure guarantee you it's not banning Animal Farm! They're talking about God, it's too damn expensive to pay for child care, or I'd like to do this!
- Episode: Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowAnd uh, sure, it caused, um, or at least it was intended to cause people to take kind of a hard look at, uh, pre-Animal Farm, uh, to make sort of a social statement about how we treated animals.
- Episode: The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowBut my reading teacher was also the social studies teacher, and I guess that explains why all of our reading lists included Animal Farm, Hiroshima, All Quiet on the Western Front, and you know it. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful book.
- Episode: Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #402
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastI mean, it's 'Catcher in the Rye'. There are a lot of books that seem trivial.
- Episode: The Humorless Fundamentalists of Social Justice | Andrew Doyle | EP 373
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastIt's precisely the reason why when he wrote Animal Farm, he couldn't get it published for so long, because people were horrified by the possibility that left-wing people could be authoritarian.
- Episode: David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #375
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastI probably read 1984 five or ten times, I don't remember. I've read Animal Farm far more. But I don't think I had to analyze what I think about 1984.
- Episode: Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIf you work hard enough, just like in Animal Farm, you'll be like Boxer and be slaughtered unjustly by those who are much more powerful than you because you’ll be happy when you’re slaughtered.
- Episode: Chuck Klosterman on Writing, Being Wrong, and The Nineties
Podcast: The Daily StoicMy favorite book of all time is probably Animal Farm, and it’s funny to think that the first time I read that, I must have read it only as text.
- Episode: Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIt comes from Animal Farm, by my probably favorite book. So you remember Benjamin, the donkey?
- Episode: Michael Malice: New Year's Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #253
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastTo me, 'The Plague' is about the doctor, and it’s about love, and it’s about the different roles that humans take in a time of tragedy like the plague. Also, it’s an allegory, so you can start to think about whatever you think that is. See, you've been for white pill, researching a lot of actual, specifically defined suffering, sure. But also a lot of wonderful things, right?