night_tools wrote:Knock yourself out:
There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees...
Here you go, Canuck-San:
The rich think everything's fine
The poor think they suck
Oak trees are right-wing assholes
My real problem with this forest-as-society metaphor is the sentiment underlying it: The natural state of things is that the rich are rich because they deserve it. If they consume more than others, or if their progress makes life hard on the poor, then so be it. The principle fear of the rich is that if the selfish poor complain enough, then the rich, who are their betters, will be restrained by government from achieving their (natural) greatness and majesty. Quit complaining, poor people!
Fuck that right in the eye. All efforts to elevate the poor are done in the interest of allieviating suffering, and anyone incapable of seeing that for what it is (or worse, misrepresenting it as an effort to stunt the progress of the rich, by "hatchet, axe and saw"), is a selfish cock.
It also betrays the real agenda of those opposed to any form of charity or welfare. What matters most to them is not their achievement (the "height" of these goddamn trees), but their status -- that they are the tallest trees and have other trees to look down upon.
No one sugests that the poor are better off if we just take money from the rich or hinder the rich in some hatchet/axe/saw way. Equalization in this manner would benefit no one. The point is not to make these cocksucking oak trees shorter, and presenting it in this light is duplicitous, deceptive and typical of right-wing assholes.
Fuck Rush and their right-wing agenda straight in the eye.