I've been thinking about Morrison, and Animal Farm and the rise of Napolean the pig. Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolution—not to the formulation of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, 1/3

not to the new society’s initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies 2/3

He doesn’t educate the puppies for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army of cult-like devotees 3/3