THE BOOK OF THE VIP
ADAM
A new idea called munitions factoriesRisking the life of the planet
Chapter 43
And so (said the pen),
2nThe miraculous recovery brought about by war will eventually bring Capitalism back in style,
3And when all the oplanes and tanks and bombs and bullets have ensured victory against the evil foe,
4The Most Chosen Nation will embark on a new pgolden era of wealth,
5And they will learn once again the things they’ve forgotten,
6For a while, anyway.
7qFor example, they will learn that if they want something, they’re going to pay for it, with cash money, if they’re lucky, because the other ways of paying for things are almost all worse.
8And they will learn to work hard at creating value, because afalse value vanishes in a btidal wave of empty paper.
9And when they have relearned these lessons, they will make more things than even they can imagine,
10So that the day will come when everybody has plenty of everything,
11cExcept maybe black people and some of the poor white trash who never make it off the bottom rung,
12dAnd they will feel so strongly about your ideas that they will be prepared to risk the life of the planet to defend Capitalism against its enemies,
13eWho will consist of all the nations that don’t have anything at all,
14fExcept weapons, that is,
15gAnd nations like this will have huge governments whose full-time job it is to explain why the people don’t have anything at all,
16hExcept misery,
17iWhich must be your fault,
18Because the rich Capitalists in America grabbed all the things that everybody else is rightfully entitled to,
19Because the greatest people have the lowest number of goods,
20jOr something like that,
21Which is why the Most Chosen Nation will have to build lots and lots and lots of incredibly powerful weapons,
22To use on anyone who wants some of their goods,
23Which will threaten the entire planet with extinction,
24Unless all the waste products thrown away by your factories poison the planet to death first.
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