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I think that it is much easier to understand the message from a much simpler viewpoint. Instead of signing onto the idea of equality, think in terms of power.
If a person has more power than anther person: will that power be used to exploit or not exploit the weaker person?
That is much easier to understand than having to begin conceptualizing equality.
There is no such thing as equality, until someone begins to invent equality, and then someone works to produce equality, and how much effort must be spent, how much power is used up, in maintaining equality?
Here is the relevant quote:
"all animals are equal"
Why?
Who says so?
Why does someone say such a thing?
Is that true?
If it is not true, but someone is led to believe that it is true, then someone is being lied to, and someone is the victim of a lie, which is different from someone inventing that idea, or that perception, or that viewpoint that is not true.
Is it true?
If it is true, it can be measured as true.
So why spend any time, if it isn't true, and if it can't be measured as true, on it?
If it isn't true, why does it exist? Who invented that deceptive invention?
Why would someone create something that is not true, that thing that is not true in particular, what is the point of inventing a false claim that all animals, or all people, are equal?
To me the lesson offered by George Orwell is Orwellian; or hidden, as an opposite meaning.
If you are left with the idea that it is good to know that all people are equal, if that is what you are made to believe after reading Animal Farm, then I think you are being set-up to be even less able to avoid an even more destructive lie. In effect, if that is true, then George Orwell is one of the pigs; he is Squealer.
Does that make sense?