Riot by Three Days Grace

When Major gives his speech and all of the animals break into song with The Beasts of England, the song Riot by Three Days Grace comes to mind. The song, like this part of the book, is about rallying people to start a riot because they feel abused and mistreated.
The verses go along with what Major explains about their treatment on the farm.

If you feel so empty

So used up, so let down

If you feel so angry

So ripped off so stepped on

You're not the only one

Refusing to back down

You're not the only one

So get up

The first verse goes along with Major's arguments that the farmer and his worker shave been slacking on feeding the animals and they have been over working them to exhaustion. He explains that all animals are like this and soon they will all be free from human control.

Let's start a riot, a riot
Let's start a riot
Let's start a riot, a riot
Let's start a riot

This is where he tells the animals that one day all farm animals will rise up together and overthrough the humans and they will all be saved from the whips and mistreatment of the farmers.

Creating their own Web

Webs of lies are messy business. After a while, its hard for one to see what is real and what isn't. That is exactly why Big Brother creates a web for Oceania in 1984. We all know that propoganda is a major part in any society like this, but the shocking part is that the citizens are creating the lies that they have to believe.
In Animal Farm, the animals didn't know anybetter than to believe what they were told, but in 1984, thousands of people make a living off of making lies for the records. This is what Winston does; rewrites the history of Oceania. If something doesn't agree with what the Party is currently preaching, it is sent to someone like Winston who has to rewrite the newspaper article or page in the book or whatever doesn't work for the party. It is mind boggling to think that after fabricating such fiction, the people turn around and believe it to be truth.
When they are listening to the big speach at the Hate Week rally, the speaker is going on and on about how they are at war with Eurasia, but in the middle of his speech, Oceania switches over to being at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. He, of course, continues his speech like nothing ever happened and convinces the crowd that they had never been at war with Eurasia and it was Eastasia that they are angry with. They citizens believe him, act like nothing was every any different, and feel embarassed for having anti-Eurasia signs instead of anti-Eastasia signs. It is unbelievable how the entire crowd would just stop what they are thinking and believe something that completely contradicts it.
I am still unable to find an excuse for the citizens of Oceania to swallow the lies that they wittness first hand and also create themselves. It is even more radiculous that this tactic actually works in controlling the masses and keeping them happy.

They swallow it like grain

In 1984 and Animal Farm, the societies couldn't stay the way they were without propoganda. To put it gentley, the people were told things that weren't quite true, but who wants to put it gentley? The leaders would blatently lie to their people to keep them in line.
The pigs did it constantly when they changed their commandments for their won good. Squealer would always come out to shovel the lies out to the other animals. When they changed the rule where "No Animal Shall Sleep In a Bed With Sheets" and some of the animals where trying to remember if it had always been that way, Squealer would set them straight by saying that this had always been the way and their memories were wrong. How did they just accept that their memories were wrong and what someone else was telling them was true? As Orwell explains many times, some of the animals are not very bright so they would believe anything they were told since the pigs were seen as the smartest animals on the farm. With the pigs being the smartest, all of the other animals just accepted everything they said as absolute truth, even though it was absolute nonsense. With the animals, it is kind of understandable that they trust the pigs so much because they are told that the pigs are superior to all other animals on the farm. They even convince the animals that they need all of the apples and milk to themselves for their mash because they need the nourishment for all of the extra brainpower that they have to do. Of course it is obsurd to think that the pigs need more food than the other animals that slave in the hot sun all day while they sit in cool buildings thinking, but the animals don't know any better and trust the pigs because they are smarter.
In the end, all of the lies add up to an obedient group of citizens that do all of the work while the liers reap all of the benifits. Then they become exactly what they were trying to avoid: unmerciful tyrants.