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AN EASY GUIDE TO POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:

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

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 neighbours help you take care of them, and you
all share the milk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 sue you for breach of contract.

BRITISH DEMOCRACY:
You have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The
government does not do anything.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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