Utropica is a land where freedom means that everything is free, no one has to work, and all have the right to be entertained. To create Utropica, another land, Slavatoria, was also created. In Slavatoria, all people work hard so that Utropians can by tom davis
(libertarian)
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Travel with me for a moment to thelandofUtropica.
In Utropica, life is good. In Utropica, no one has to work but everyone eats as much as they like. Everyone is provided with nice clothing as well, not to mention their own heated and cooled homes to live in. And the best part is that its all free, no one pays so much as a penny for anything in Utropica.
In Utropica there is always a party going on somewhere. In fact, there is no lack of entertainment, free entertainment and free food to go along with it. The people can get as fat as they want while watching the beautiful entertainers.
But how can it be? How can Utropica have all it needs and wants yet no one has to work to earn these things? Well, a group called the Powers-That-Be provide all the free stuff to the people of Utropica. And how do the Powers-That-Be afford all of this? Because they are the stewards of TheMagical Place.
Now, The Magical Place is located at the center of Utropica. It is a place of lush ferns and colorful flowers, and there is always a cool breeze blowing there. The air is always fresh and the sun never burns the skin in The Magical Place. Best of all, in the heart of The Magical Place is a stream created by a magical spring. But this spring doesnt flow with water, its like no spring anywhere else. Because this spring is a gold-spring.
Yes, thats right, a spring flowing with gold. The spring never runs dry but constantly, day and night, it flows with pure gold. The Powers-That-Be simply take gold from the gold-spring and buy all the things needed and desired by the people of Utropica. Isnt it wonderful that no one has to try hard or sweat or ever bang their finger with a hammer while working, because everything is free, thanks to the gold-stream and the Powers-That-Be.
Sometimes a question is quietly asked in Utropica: where does the gold-spring come from? If one could swim back through the gold stream, all the way back to its source, what would one find?
No one in Utropica would be allowed to do so, but if they could go back to the source of the gold-stream, they might be a little confused by what they would find.
Thats because the gold-stream originates in another land called Slavatoria.
Slavatoria isnt like Utropica at all. Whereas Utropica is bright, lively and happy, Slavatoria is dark, dank, dreary and kind of sad. In Slavatoria, there is only one kind of work: digging for gold in the gold mine.
In Slavatoria, nothing is free and everyone has to work in the gold mine from the time they are old enough to use a small pick or shovel. Those children who are too young to work spend their days in an institution called theNice Place, where nice people imported from, how did you guess it, Utropica. These young, impressionable Slavatorians are taught that they were actually born to work in the gold mine. Its their very destiny! In fact, it is a privilege to work in the gold mine! Why? Because, to be a good person one must help fill the gold-pit.
You see, all the gold dug from the mine in Slavatoria is thrown into a boiling gold-pit. This gold-pit never fills up, but it is wrong to ask why it never fills up. Its wrong to ask because the nice people at theNice Placesaid it was wrong to ask.
Besides, the gold mine is the only place to work in Slavatoria and working there is the only way to get food and clothes. The mine owners are also from Utropica, and the gold mine belongs to them because they are from Utropica. They are also said to be nice people, and they pay the workers with food and sometimes with clothing.
After all, working in the gold mine is hard and dirty work, and clothes wear out. If not for the owners of the gold mine, the people of Slavatoria might go naked and hungry!
All the workers in Slavatoria say the same thing: Those gold mine owners are so wonderful!
All except for one man that is, a trouble maker named Pon Raul. Pon Raul must have been on drugs, because he came up with the crazy idea that there was a hole at the bottom of the gold-pit, a hole through which the molten gold was draining. Pon Raul even went so far as to say that the molten gold flowed through the earth in a stream that emerged in, of all places, Utropica!
Thankfully, the Powers-That-Be were able to capture Pon Raul and silence him before he spread any more of his dangerous lies. What a dangerous man, said the people of Slavatoria. How could Pon Raul have been so mean as to accuse the nice owners of the gold mine of lying about the gold-pit? There had never been a hole at the bottom of the gold-pit, and there never would be, promised the owners of the gold mine. We promise, they repeated, so the Slavatorians knew that it was the truth.
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