Crumby Demonizes the Economy
Is the Demon Mammon in Charge of the Homeland Economy?
A great many regular people and gentlemen are turned off by economics. To them, economics seems a dull pseudo-science spiced up with incomprehensible double talk and boosterism. But what if everyone knew that the Demon Mammon, one of the very worst demons loosed upon this little globe, was in charge of the economy. Wouldn’t that make economics more interesting?
Course it would. To know that a terrible wicked demon is in charge of the economy makes economics more interesting. How do we know that a terrible wicked demon, Demon Mammon no less, is in charge of our economy? Easy that, just look at the way our economy works. Only the most greedy and avaricious among the trickle down recipients enjoy the upward mobility that may eventually waft them up to high subservience with the ruling class. Just think of all the compromises, lying and gluttony, those trickle downers must subject themselves to, just to get where they want to go. Scary, isn’t it?
And what of the rulers themselves, seated at the Demon’s Table. The rulers’ chairs are inherited, so that many generations of their kin have sat upon those chairs, guzzling and swilling at the Demon’s Table.
Did you know that many of the rulers have two houses, or even four houses, just for themselves? They’re not little houses either, typically. Plus the rulers have lots of other stuff compared to what you probably have. And the main goal of the rulers is to make sure that they get even more stuff, more and more. Stuff, especially power, that they may enjoy at their leisure, all safe and secure.
This fact about the rulers permeates US. We are taught to be just like them, and we are also taught that if we work hard, we can be just like them, and have a seat at the Demon’s Table.
This is where the double talk and boosterism come into play. Obviously, and despite the Bounty of the Goddess, everyone can’t have four big houses, or even three. There wouldn’t be any room for anything, but big houses. But the double talk and boosterism indicate otherwise. Sure you can have three houses, or even five, if you are willing to work hard. Or, as the Kinglet might opine, “It’s hard work, working hard, uh, uh you have to work hard.”
Deep down, most of US know that we shall never be exalted on up to the Demon’s Table. So we content ourselves with the trickle down, which, due to the Bounty of the Goddess, keeps on trickling, down.
But what does the Demon Mammon do for US, personally? Well now, the Demon Mammon instructs US that the only way the Homeland economy can survive, is to grow. Or, as the Kinglet would say, “Uh, uh, we need to grow the, uh, pie.” Naturally, this instruction, or divine advice, is applied to every facet of our lives. The Demon’s instruction rules US.
Eat more, quicker. Work more, faster. Get there, sooner. Buy that, now. I need a bigger one. I need three bigger ones. I need servants. I need an island. I need a colony. I need a lawyer.
Interesting byproducts created from the Demon’s divine instruction are spectacular quantities of waste and pollution, very attractive to the Wicker Man.
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Above, Crumby, still weak from his terrible ordeal in the Wilderness, is mixing Christian and Druid divinities in an effort to reach out to his former religionists.
The Ark Druid
A great many regular people and gentlemen are turned off by economics. To them, economics seems a dull pseudo-science spiced up with incomprehensible double talk and boosterism. But what if everyone knew that the Demon Mammon, one of the very worst demons loosed upon this little globe, was in charge of the economy. Wouldn’t that make economics more interesting?
Course it would. To know that a terrible wicked demon is in charge of the economy makes economics more interesting. How do we know that a terrible wicked demon, Demon Mammon no less, is in charge of our economy? Easy that, just look at the way our economy works. Only the most greedy and avaricious among the trickle down recipients enjoy the upward mobility that may eventually waft them up to high subservience with the ruling class. Just think of all the compromises, lying and gluttony, those trickle downers must subject themselves to, just to get where they want to go. Scary, isn’t it?
And what of the rulers themselves, seated at the Demon’s Table. The rulers’ chairs are inherited, so that many generations of their kin have sat upon those chairs, guzzling and swilling at the Demon’s Table.
Did you know that many of the rulers have two houses, or even four houses, just for themselves? They’re not little houses either, typically. Plus the rulers have lots of other stuff compared to what you probably have. And the main goal of the rulers is to make sure that they get even more stuff, more and more. Stuff, especially power, that they may enjoy at their leisure, all safe and secure.
This fact about the rulers permeates US. We are taught to be just like them, and we are also taught that if we work hard, we can be just like them, and have a seat at the Demon’s Table.
This is where the double talk and boosterism come into play. Obviously, and despite the Bounty of the Goddess, everyone can’t have four big houses, or even three. There wouldn’t be any room for anything, but big houses. But the double talk and boosterism indicate otherwise. Sure you can have three houses, or even five, if you are willing to work hard. Or, as the Kinglet might opine, “It’s hard work, working hard, uh, uh you have to work hard.”
Deep down, most of US know that we shall never be exalted on up to the Demon’s Table. So we content ourselves with the trickle down, which, due to the Bounty of the Goddess, keeps on trickling, down.
But what does the Demon Mammon do for US, personally? Well now, the Demon Mammon instructs US that the only way the Homeland economy can survive, is to grow. Or, as the Kinglet would say, “Uh, uh, we need to grow the, uh, pie.” Naturally, this instruction, or divine advice, is applied to every facet of our lives. The Demon’s instruction rules US.
Eat more, quicker. Work more, faster. Get there, sooner. Buy that, now. I need a bigger one. I need three bigger ones. I need servants. I need an island. I need a colony. I need a lawyer.
Interesting byproducts created from the Demon’s divine instruction are spectacular quantities of waste and pollution, very attractive to the Wicker Man.
_____
Above, Crumby, still weak from his terrible ordeal in the Wilderness, is mixing Christian and Druid divinities in an effort to reach out to his former religionists.
The Ark Druid
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, December 03, 2006
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