The parable of the pigs is a story about the dangers of totalitarian collectivist ideologies Here is the essence of the story with some modifications of my own:
“There was a “woke” professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?”
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food.” (Totalitarian ideas are always delivered as beneficial.
However, to quote Ben Franklin “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Security and comfort can be substituted for Safety).
“When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence”. “They get used to that and start to eat again.” (Each part of the fence is justified as supporting the needs of the collective. However, to quote Margaret Thatcher, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money”.)
“You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side”. “The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd”. (The reality is that once the gate is slammed it is now an enclosure. This is the totalitarian welfare state where you will own nothing, not even yourself.)
“The pigs run around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon, they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.” (The slavery of the socialist collective is now complete. However, to quote Winston Churchill “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” This is the totalitarian ruin,)
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward the tyranny of totalitarian ideologies. It doesn’t matter what label is used, socialism, communism, fascism or the New World Order, all are totalitarian in result.
Notably, the government keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, EV and dairy subsidies, welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc.,
Conversely, the government punishes those things It does not want such as organic fuels, guns, religious observances, etc. Little by little the government forces us to participate in or avoid many aspects of their ideology whether or not we want to.
One should always remember a number of truths:
- There is no such thing as a free lunch.
- The pigs inside the fence own nothing.
- The pigs inside the fence are owed nothing
- Eventually, the farmer comes to cull the pigs inside the fence.
- Some “free” pigs are let inside the fence to help maintain the farmer’s stock.
- The pigs outside the fence have no duty to save the pigs inside the fence.
- The pigs outside the fence have a future.
- And finally, the pigs inside the fence have to fight their way out if they wish to be free.
Note: The original story was found on the internet with no specific attribution except to a friend of [email protected] in 2008.
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turns out the whole Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance is just another Democrat conspiracy to defraud White America of its birthright, which for those of you scoring at home is complete dominion over the United States:
“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” Vivek Ramaswamy, the unsuccessful 2024 presidential candidate who has spread conspiracy theories about the January 6 insurrection and the legitimacy of the 2020 election, posted Monday on X. “And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.”
Ramaswamy was responding to a post from Jack Posobiec, the far-right conspiracy theorist, who shared a version of the theory during an interview with Roseanne Barr, the famous actress who in recent years has descended into the far-right online fever swamp. Posobiec said he believes the Democratic Party and other powers are “gearing up for an operation to use Taylor Swift in the election against” Donald Trump. Barr agreed, saying that Swift is “definitely somebody who has consented to speak the way the establishment wants to be spoken of” and that using her influence will be how they “try to get on top of the next election.”
Of course, it would not be surprising for Swift to endorse Biden as she did in 2020. After all, celebrity endorsements are run-of-the-mill in presidential campaigns and Swift has over the years waded more deeply into political waters, encouraging her fans to turn out and vote.
But suggesting that Swift, one of the most powerful entertainment figures on Earth, is quietly being manipulated by sinister forces in a grand conspiracy staged by the establishment is ridiculous. And yet, that is precisely the type of rhetoric that has permeated the country’s ever-more polluted information environment.
“Taylor Swift is an op,” Benny Johnson, a right-wing media personality who boasts millions of followers across different social media platforms, wrote on X. “It’s all fake. You’re being played.”
“The Democrats’ Taylor Swift election interference psyop is happening in the open,” added Laura Loomer, a self-described Islamophobe who has been embraced and promoted by Trump. “It’s not a coincidence that current and former Biden admin officials are propping up Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. They are going to use Taylor Swift as the poster child for their pro-abortion GOTV Campaign.”
“The NFL is totally RIGGED for the Kansas City Chiefs, Taylor Swift, Mr. Pfizer (Travis Kelce),” agreed Mike Crispi, a Salem Media host. “All to spread DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDA. Calling it now: KC wins, goes to Super Bowl, Swift comes out at the halftime show and ‘endorses’ Joe Biden with Kelce at midfield.”
But wait, there’s more. Apparently, there’s a raging Twitter fight going on between these right wing conspiracists, and another group of right wing conspiracists, led by Race Realist Steve Sailer, who believe that the Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is a genetically engineered GigaChad, who is so good at quarterbacking because, per Sailer, he has inherited throwing accuracy and analytical smarts from his mother’s “white genes,” and running ability/overall athleticism and “physical creativity” from his father’s “black genes.”
For you non-sportsball people, Sailer’s ravings are just an extension of the longtime conventional wisdom among NFL coaches and management that human evolution did not produce any black NFL quarterbacks until very recently, because as was well known the blacks could only run, not throw accurately, plus Those People didn’t have the brainpower to make the sort of split second decisions that NBA point guards NFL quarterbacks have to make.
BTW a morbidly amusing atavism of this species of Race Science can still be found at the very popular college football recruiting site Rivals.com, which still divides quarterback prospects into two categories: “pro-style” and “dual-threat,” meaning a prospect who is more of a runner than a thrower. Routinely, all the top “pro-style” prospects are white and all the top “dual-threat” prospects are black. To go down this particular rabbit hole just a bit further, a few years ago ESPN screamfest king Stephen A. Smith was arguing for selecting Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins at the top of the NFL draft despite the fact that Haskins was “more of a runner” than a passer, although in fact Haskins couldn’t run at all, as anybody who had ever watched him play could attest. This obviously didn’t include Smith, who did however know that Haskins was black, so obviously he was a great runner, because Science.
Anyway to their extremely partial credit, the Swift is a Democrat Plant conspiracists are making all sorts of fun of Sailer’s It’s Just Science theory of genetically engineered quarterbacks, pointing out that Mahomes’s black father was a major league baseball pitcher, which is a job where being able to throw a ball both hard and accurately has some salience.
All these people are, it hardly needs to be said but apparently it does, completely insane. They also very much represent the base of the contemporary Republican party, because they are Donald Trump’s most fanatical supporters, and the Republican party is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trump Enterprises.
I seriously doubt that the affairs of a young couple in love are relevant in the world of politics and certainly not in the world of Republican politics. Ms Swift is a classic leftwing celebrity who, in her thirties, appeals to the teeny booper crowd. Mr.Kelsey is a very good football player and works very hard to stay good in a sport where longevity is rare. Other than that, who cares other than democrats like yourself who have no policies worthy of praise and a dementia damaged president who can’t find his way to a bathroom without help.
Apparently u failed reading comprehension.
The article clearly points out that the “Taylor Swift is a Democratic plant” is the product of the rightwing MAGAt fever swamp.
Taylor Swift has said she is going to vote Biden.
Do not try to understand the foul stench coming from the rightwing propaganda swamp about Swift, Kelce, NFL, etc.
Republicans, being largely mentally-enfeebled, are perfect fodder for stupid lies.
From Javier Milei: socialism is always an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries where it’s been tried. A failure economically, socially, culturally, and it also murdered over 100 million human beings.
Cute story that has no relevance to anything because people are not pigs.
Still this fable is the sort of silliness that right wing dimwits like to repeat then congratulate themselves on their brilliance .
Then why do democrats treat people like pigs.
Then why do democrats treat people like pigs. Even their own.
As I recall, “dr” Warren (who is NOT an MD) was one of the morons attacking Kansa City Chiefs tight end Travis Kielce for promoting COVID vaccine boosters, claiming the booster would suck his strength.
Today he caught 11 for 11 passes including one TD and now Kelceand Taylor Swift are headed for the Super Bowl.
May you get myocarditis.. since you like your vaccines so much! You weren’t going to die from Fauci’s little Chinese funded virus anyway..
but hey… maybe the NIH can fund them to create an even more lethal virus.
Nobody yet know the full extent of injury and death associated with the mRNA vaxxes. The estimates of death by COVID vaxx alone is now 17 million, and that is an undercount with some claims of 10 times that because of deliberate under reporting. Approximately 1 in 1000 vaxx shots carry deadly consequences but since you love them so much, yo can have mine also.
It would be great if Iilena would comment. She actually grew up in a communist pigsty.
No need for her to comment .. . We all know what she will say, we have heard it all before.
You have heard it before, but you obviously don’t listen or understand.
Brilliant, dream that up all by yourself?