World Ideologies with Refrences to Cows
World Ideologies with References
to Cows
Feudalism
You have two cows.
Your lord takes some of the milk.
Pure Socialism
You have two cows.
The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's
cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all
the milk you need.
Bureaucratic Socialism
Your cows are cared
for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government
took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and
eggs the regulations say you should need.
Fascism
You have two cows.
The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you
the milk.
Pure Communism
You have two cows.
Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
Real World Communism
You share two cows
with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most
"ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one
gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
Russian Communism
You have two cows.
You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You
steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
Perestroika
You have two cows.
You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal
back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.
Cambodian Communism
You have two cows.
The government takes both and shoots you.
Militarianism
You have two cows.
The government takes both and drafts you.
Totalitarianism
You have two cows.
The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
Pure Democracy
You have two cows.
Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
Representative Democracy
You have two cows.
Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
British Democracy
You have two cows.
You feed them sheep’s' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do
anything.
Bureaucracy
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. Then 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.
Pure Anarchy
You have two cows.
Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take
the cows and kill you.
Pure Capitalism
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Capitalism
You don't have
any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't
have any cows to put up as collateral.
Environmentalism
You have two cows.
The government bans you from milking or killing them.
Political Correctness
You are associated
with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war
mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable
to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
Theocracy
You have two cows.
Your priest takes them both to be sacrifices. You all starve to death but
the gods are pleased.
Surrealism
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
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