Coming off the final act of this drama immediately took me to George Orwell’s great diatribe against totalitarianism — Animal Farm. In this classic allegory of the Bolshevik Revolution he charts the eventual disintegration of the ideals of the revolution through the gradual dismantling of the Seven Commandments of the hard worn bestial utopia. At the end of this dark tale, the last of these “commandments” — “All of animals are equal” has been revised to the point of unrecognition by the ruling porcines to read “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” The annals of history is proof of the reality that good intentions can turn hellish all-too quickly not only because of unintended consequences but because absolute power is too hot for mere mortals to wield.