I've seen better trolls · 9:24pm Jul 19th, 2015
This anguished bit of agitprop showed up in, of all places, Yahoo! Answers:
It's a tad hard for me to fathom that such an innocent magical show actually took a political position that insults the notion of equality or collective responsibility. I am referring to a set of episodes in the Season 5 called "The Cutie map" where the Mane 6 visit a village that is essentially Ayn Rand's "Anthem" turned into ponies. Everyone is equal, everything looks the same, they sing triumphant choirs of how they are but mere cells to the community, food tastes bland, and those who don't follow the status quo are forced to by fear tactics.
As a leftist myself, I'm of course offended by these totalitarian stereotypes of democratic socialism. But beyond that I'm just surprised that instead of some dumb *** Fox News documentary, this is MLP propagating this BS.
Of course, the hilarious aspect of this is that "democratic socialism" works only to the extent that it is totalitarian: the moment someone steps off the page, the entire illusion starts to unravel. It was always thus, and thus shall it always be.
Q. "What's the difference between Utopia and Tartarus?"
A: "Tartarus readily admits to what it really is."
We've learned a new word today: Agitprop.
I like it.
I don't know enough about democratic socialism to dislike it. I'd imagine that the greatest offense MLP paid to a democratic socialist society is that there would be far less singing and far more forced smiles. Provided more forced smiles be possible.
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Nopony is actually, you know, commanding us to smile. (Except Pinkie.)
Then again, I was a monarchist at heart before ever being introduced to Luna and Celestia, with an overlay of H. L. Mencken:
I'm probably just as common as the next guy, but I'm leery of things that are supposed to make me smile, especially if those things are going to be funded by taxation.
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Well, a government-funded park could certainly be a sign of a totalitarian government.
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True that. Think "bread and circuses."