In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
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1. Revolution contains the seeds of its own corruption
The animals overthrow their human farmer Mr. Jones to create an equal society, but the pigs who led the rebellion gradually adopt every human vice.
They sleep in beds, drink alcohol, walk on two legs…until the final scene where neighboring farmers can’t distinguish between the pigs and humans at a dinner party.
@CoastalCowboy2@LeadingReport I hate the higher mortgage rates as well but they are not based on the prime rate set by the Fed but by the yield on the 10yr t bill and the price of mortgage backed securities. The reason we ever saw 2-3% mortgage rates was because the federal was buying treasuries to stim Econ