The Morning Rant

UTOPIAN DREAMS

This is the solarpunk future I'm fighting for! pic.twitter.com/fqMfOzc9mj

— Stephen Magee ▼ (@St_Magee) December 20, 2021

Apparently, the animation is a yogurt commercial with all of the yogurt edited out. So Magee turned it into a late-night dorm-room bull session fueled by lack of sleep, naivete, and weed.

I would point out to the dorm room guys before they nodded off: this cartoon doesn't show everybody. This is definitely a "haves" vs. "have-nots" view, whether they acknowledge it or not. What you're looking at in this cartoon here are the "haves".

But there are a number of things they're not showing you, namely, lithium mines, rare earth processing facilities, farms, factories, steel mills and all of the rest of the manufacturing infrastructure necessary to make and maintain all of the cool stuff shown in this animated fantasy cartoon.

Oh, and if you want to make things out of plastic, you need: petroleum, and lots of it. So those dirty, unsightly oil wells aren't going anywhere.

The fact of the matter is, much the world is a dirty, smelly, disgusting place and must be maintained by dirty, smelly, disgusting work, work that is absolutely necessary.

So my question to all of the airhead utopian socialists is, "so, comrades, what are you willing to do to bring about the Glorious Socialist Revolution? Are you willing to sling bales of hay, work a 12-hour factory shift, spending all day on a ranch mucking out sheep stalls? Do you really think the Glorious Revolution needs your gender-studies degree? Because what it needs is people who are willing to work and work hard. Duty now for the future, comrade! Oh wait, you thought you were going to be awarded some administrative position where you sit behind a desk on your fat butt in a comfortable office all day moving papers around and telling other people what to do? Did you really think that? Because, let me tell you, those are the jobs that everybody wants, so they're really in short supply. Meanwhile, crops lie unharvested, the factories are idle", there are mouths to feed and poverty to alleviate. Prove your worth to the Revolution by toiling away in nameless obscurity doing work that is necessary but most likely will not be recognized."

Because if the dorm room guys weren't so ignorant of history, they would know that the kind of people who make it to the top of the heap in a socialist society are the most ruthless, cut-throat, violent amoral people imaginable. It won't be them. They don't have the guts to kill people who stand in their way. They will be up against the wall in the second group of executions, the ones that inevitably occurs when the Revolution begins to devour itself.

It's always fun to ask commie utopian dreamers, "OK then, say you've set up your socialist utopia. Who cleans the toilets?" It's a very simple question, yet they don't want to answer it. Because if they answer the question at all (and most don't), the answer always boils down to "someone else, not me."

The Socialist Utopia They Try To Sell You:

The Socialist Utopia You'll Get:

Because You Can't Have Utopia Without Commissars:

Yeah, It's A Real Head-Scratcher:

Who Dis:

For the 'Ettes:

Wednesday Who Dis: I would think that Lizabeth Scott would be better known, as she appeared in films opposite such A-listers as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Charlton Heston. Bur she never achieved the level of stardom that would be expected. She eventually lefty Hollywood and got into real estate. As did Stuart Whitman, who amassed a personal fortune of $100 million thanks to his shrewd investing. He appeared with Scott in the western film Silver Lode in 1954.

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