George Orwell's Prophecy Fulfilled Again

"... One day, Boxer’s strength fails; he collapses while pulling stone for the windmill. The other animals rush to tell Squealer, while Benjamin and Clover stay near their friend. The pigs announce that they will arrange to bring Boxer to a human hospital to recuperate, but when the cart arrives, Benjamin reads the writing on the cart’s sideboards and announces that Boxer is being sent to a glue maker to be slaughtered. The animals panic and begin crying out to Boxer that he must escape ... ... Soon Squealer announces that the doctors could not cure Boxer: he has died at the hospital. He claims to have been at the great horse’s side as he died and calls it the most moving sight he has ever seen --- he says that Boxer died praising the glories of Animal Farm. Squealer denounces the false rumors that Boxer was taken to a glue factory, ... and when Napoleon gives a great speech in praise of Boxer, they feel completely soothed. "

— Chapter 9, Animal Farm (1945)

Officially banned in China since 1949, however, this prophetic fiction has been faithfully followed, and very recently, even fabulously performed by the government! ^{1, 2}

July 2017