April 11, 2008
‘Elp, ‘elp, I’m bein’ repressed!…(The Sanity Inspector)
ARTHUR:
Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN:
No one lives there.
ARTHUR:
Then who is your lord?
WOMAN:
We don’t have a lord.
ARTHUR:
What?
DENNIS:
I told you. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,…
ARTHUR:
Yes.
DENNIS:
…but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting…
ARTHUR:
Yes, I see.
DENNIS:
…by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,…

Etc., etc., after 450 years.

5 Comments  :::   Post a comment »

  1. Comment by McGehee on 4/11 @ 3:59 pm #

    Is that where sarcasm comes from?

  2. Comment by Cowboy on 4/11 @ 4:27 pm #

    After the day I’ve had, I want desperately to be one of the Chief Pleas.

    I’ll be benevolent & stuff. Promise.

  3. Comment by Patrick Carroll on 4/11 @ 6:43 pm #

    Come see the violence inherent in the system?

  4. Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/11 @ 8:20 pm #

    And as this quaint isle resolves to democracy, just to the east they’re sliding back into feudalism with the modern megastate replacing the medieval manor.

  5. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 4/11 @ 9:40 pm #

    Maybe four or five hundred years from now there’ll be some tiny island with the last extant socialist government.

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