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The Pink Floyd album "Animals" terms them "Dogs", "Sheep", and "Pigs", which is just as cynical (probably moreso) but also has the catchiness which Sociopath/Loser/Clueless exhibits but Opportunists/Pragmatists/Idealists does not.



That sounds like the album is using the allegories from George Orwell’s Animal Farm.


Yep, Animal Farm absolutely was an influence on that album

https://www.openculture.com/2017/04/pink-floyd-adapts-orwell...

> Orwell showed the effects of “undemocratic structures” by reducing individuals to animal types, and so does Waters, simplifying the classes further into three (and leaving out humans altogether): the ruling pigs, praetorian and aspiring capitalist dogs, and the sheep, the mindless masses.




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