Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: December 02, 2021 09:11PM
Imagine if you will, a six-foot thick round concrete column that's 10 feet tall . . .
Now tip it over so that it's lying on the ground . . .
Now imagine a wooden plank, the kind pirates use when they make someone 'walk the plank' . . .
Imagine the plank is seven feet wide and 80 feet long, and in your imagination, place it on the round column in teeter-totter fashion, so that there's 40 feet of the plank on either side of the teeter-totter's fulcrum, the concrete column . . .
Now imagine that a plutocrat* is seated at one far end of the plank, in a thick, expensive, richly padded mahogany chair, surrounded by stacks of gold bullion and sacks of gold coins. Make the stacks and sacks BIG . . .
At the other end of the plank, begin placing roughly-garbed peasants, (people, not the bird!), with disheveled hair and dirt-smeared hands and faces. The idea is to add sufficient numbers of these peasants so that the tetter-totter is balanced; the plutocrat and his riches at one end and however many peasants it took to create an equilibrium at the other end . . .
Now add a caption, which is the plutocrat announcing, "Hey, be careful!! Don't move or we'll lose our precious political and economic stabilities!"
Get it? The plutocrat wants their current situation to remain static.
This is not my idea/creation. It's my attempt to describe a cartoon from the 1960s, drawn by a self-declared Mexican Marxist, Eduardo Del Rio Garcia, under his pen-name, Riuz.
*A plutocrat is a member of a plutocracy or plutarchy, which is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631. Unlike most political systems, plutocracy is not rooted in any established political philosophy...it's simply an economic condition, which, as is usually the case, has its admirers and detractors.