From: Frederick Mann (fm1@amug.org)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 12:58:21 MDT
POLITICS ON DUMBTOPIA
"This is one of the most delightful things
I've read in a while. Thanks."
-- Robert Sterling (Editor, The Konformist)
Far, far away, on the other side of the Milky
Way Galaxy, there's a beautiful planet called
Dumbtopia.
Dumbtopia's inhabitants are called Idiots.
They believe in a Supernatural creature they
call Skybless.
Dumbtopia is divided into Dumbcountries --
at least, that's what the Idiots believe.
They sporadically fight and slaughter each
other over some skyblessforsaken patch of
land -- "For Skybless and Dumbcountry."
Apparently, each Dumbcountry is ruled by a
Plusidiot. Plusidiots are wiser than Idiots
because they have blue blood -- or so they
say. Common Idiots have red blood and
believe that Plusidiots are their Superiors.
Apparently, each Plusidiot has a Dumbcouncil
to help rule the common Idiots. Plusidiots
have a secret magic drink called Etherwise.
They give it to selected Idiots to drink.
It makes their heads spin. After they've
been drinking Etherwise for about a month,
they experience Dumbliss, become Halfwits,
and qualify to serve on Dumbcouncils.
Plusidiots and Halfwits pretend to have
the ability to speak and write magic words
called Pluswords -- Pluws for short. Common
Idiots believe that Pluws are special holy,
sacred words that must be obeyed. To make
sure this dumb belief sticks, Plusidiots
employ Dumbcops to punish and kill Idiots
who "disobey The Pluw."
Many common Idiots campaign to "Improve
the holy, sacred Pluws."
Every hundred years or so, as a result of
an unusual evolutionary mutation, some
common Idiot wakes up and realizes that
all the political systems on Dumbtopia
are scams, hoaxes, and frauds. The
woken-up Idiot then suggests that
Plusidiots really have red blood, just
like all common Idiots, and that there's
nothing special about so-called
"Plusidiots" and "Halfwits" -- they're
really common Idiots like everybody else.
As soon as the Dumbcops discover a
woken-up Idiot, they kill him or her.
"Skybless help us if the Idiots ever
discover that so-called "Plusidiots"
and "Halfwits" are really impostors
and liars -- common Idiots like all
the rest -- and that their pretended
"Pluws" are hoaxes... strings of dumb
lies written by "clever" Pluwyer Idiots!"
from #TL07B: The Nature of Government
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07b.shtml
Frederick Mann
--On Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:43:52 AM -0700 Jeff Davis
<jrd1415@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Extropes,
>
> This gets my vote for post of the month.
>
> --- Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>
>> Are you defining your identity by your citizenship,
>> or where you happen to live at the moment?
>>
>> We're a band of higher primates stuck on the surface
>> of an
>> atmosphere-hazed dirtball. I can associate with
>> that. I certainly can't
>> identify with which patch of the dirtball I
>> currently happen to be on, and
>> which monkey tribe happens to reside therein.
>>
>> Only by taking the big view we can make it a common
>> dream, and then a reality. It's worth it.
>>
>
> Best, Jeff Davis
>
> "We don't see things as they are,
> we see them as we are."
> Anais Nin
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