CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income or you slaughter the cows & compete with McDonalds.
HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows and you kill one because the fung shui is bad.
ENRON VERSION OF VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholders who sell the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
SOCIALISM: You have two cows, give one to your neighbor.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Give them to the government. The government gives you milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
FASCISM: You have two cows. You give the milk to the government.
PURE FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
NAZISM: The government shoots you, takes the cows and feeds one to the army and the other to the police.
ANARCHISM: Keep the cows. Steal a few more cows.
ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.
CONSERVATISM: Milk the cows, embalm the cows, freeze the milk, nuke the cows to keep from spreading the disease. Phase out over five years the amount of milk you're required to give to the government.
LIBERALISM: Give the milk back to the cows. Let them escape. Put the cows on the Voter Registration list.
LIBERTARIANISM: Milk the cows and keep it for yourself; hope the populace can find milk elsewhere.
MILITIA-ISM: Start shooting if they come for your cows.
MILITARISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".
BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallocentric, war-mongering, intolerant past) two differently-aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like... these two, like, cows, man. You got to have some of this, uh, like, milk, dude!
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