Have A laugh At Politics.

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The three P they, and always have been, Privilege, Power and Poverty? Very often, do not the first two of these curses create and perpetuate the third, Poverty?

Has it always been impossible for our species to create a social order which does not depend on some hierarchy of a strong Leaders who becomes rich and powerful, while the masses obey his/her commands and become meek and sometimes poor?

What kind of societies have not been flawed and doomed to failure by these kinds of social inequities?

Capitalism?... Based on private enterprise, worked reasonably well...Once large scale capital, shareholders, stock exchanges and faceless multinational corporations moved in, and production for need gave way to production for profit, our own societal decay began.The marketing society was born,and no longer existing for our benefit, but for the maximisation of profit.

Communism?..."From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Karl Marx's splendid ideology.Was it a failure? Most would answer "Yes". I don't think so because soon after the October Revolution of Peasants and Workers, it was never tried! Soon, after the meek's uprising, which overthrew their three Russian P's, the greedy again hijacked the Revolution and nothing had changed except the names..."The Party" for the Imperial Romanoffs...Socialism quickly became State Capitalism.

Fascism?.. Capitalism with teeth..when the meek begin to manifest some opposition the Privileged stifle their voice with their hired thugs, leaving no one to speak except those who say, "Hey! Look how things have improved since our Leader got rid of those lousy Communists, Trade Unionists and such scum.


Democracy?...Hmmmm? Equality of opportunity, free speech, education for all, the true will of the people...no one starves...everybody equal before the law?...Where can we find it?

Before it's too late, shall we have enough humanity and intelligence to create a social order which does not ultimately commit suicide or worse, MURDER?

Answers 150 words on less on a postcard please.

QUICK AND EASY WAY TO UNDERSTAND WORLD POLITICS.

1. FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

2. FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.


3. PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbours help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

4. APPLIED COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

5. DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and then shoots you.

6. NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government takes both, shoots you, and sends the cows to Zurich.

7. ITALIAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You shout at each other all day to decide what to do next. The Premier decides he will own and milk the cows, and will drink the milk too. And your response is to say 'why else would he be in politics'.

8. DUTCH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government decides to renege on the deal, they made with you on the price of the cows, but doesn't actually let you know until you have already delivered them.

9: CYPRIAN DEMOCRACY. You have two cows. Two governments argue about who owns which cow and where they live and one threatens to annex the cow if the milk isn't given to them.

10. MILITARISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

11. SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.

12. PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbours decide who gets the milk.

13. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbours pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

14. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the President is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate". The cows sues you for breach of contract.



15. BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them food made from sheep's' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.

16. EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them, and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.



17. CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

18. HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows, you sell three of them to your publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank. Then execute a debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction For keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the right to all seven cows, milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because of bad feng shui.


19. LESBIANISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.


20. TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

21. MALE CHAUVINISM: You have two cows. You're married to one and the other is your mother in law.


22. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: You are associated with (the concept of 'ownership' is a symbol of the phallocentric, warmongering, intolerant past) two differently aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.


23. COUNTERCULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like...these two cows, man. You have got to have some of this milk.

24. SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.


25. LIBERTARIANISM - you have two cows on your own land. You can sell your milk to whom so ever wants it for the best price you can. You are free to form a union with other milk producers to market your milk for a better price from the buyers or go it alone. You can swap one for a bull if you wish, and even hire out the bull for stud if anyone around want their cows servicing. You can sell unpasteurised milk and cheese if you want to or open a shop on your premises to sell directly. You can allow kids onto the farm free of H&S - a farm is a potentially dangerous environment. The only bullshit you ever encounter will be naturally produced by the bull.
The End.

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