little joke that i found on the net about libertarian philosophy
A mechanic Libertarian facing engine problems. He told his client: "You know, the source of evil comes from parts of the vehicle. There are too many." The client agrees, saying he must know his business. So the mechanic proceeds, eliminating what he sees as unnecessary and, after his book, presents the keys to the car to its owner. "Here! Why complicate things when it can be simple? "He claims. The next day the client returns. He argues that his car is less functional than before and is noisy as hell. "I see. I know the solution," says the mechanic. The latter took the car to a customer exasperated. And he applied his solution. It took more bolts and took more components from the engine and return the car, proud of his accomplishment. Two days later, the driver took his car, hoping that everything was in order. That same day, he had a serious accident and picked up at the hospital for several days. Angry, the client telephoned his mechanic and throw him some crap. That one said, "Although there. It's not my fault if you do not how to drive. "
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the right-wing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognizes few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others....
Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardized, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.
The Guardian
I personally have a weakness for the "Two Cows" jokes/political/social explanations genre. Here's a selection:
FEUDALISM You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
CAPITALISM (HONG KONG) 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 associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the feng shui is bad.
DEMOCRACY You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
COMMUNISM (PURE) You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
COMMUNISM (SOVIET) You have two cows. You count them and realize you have four cows. You drink more vodka. You count the cows again and realize you have eleventy six cows. You drink even more vodka. After a while, you realize that eleventy isn't a real number. You count the cows again and have two cows. You open another bottle of vodka and try to drown the loss of eleventy four cows.
DARWINISM You have two cows. They develop opposable thumbs and milk you.
LIBERTARIANISM Go away. What I do with my cows is none of your business.
SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Japanese Corporation: you have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of regular cows and produce 20 times the milk. You create cow images called Cowkemon and market them worldwide.
Indian: you have two cows. You worship them.
British: you have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
German: you have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for a hundred years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
Capitalism: you don't have any cows. The bank refuses to loan you money to buy cows because you don't have any cows to use as collateral.
Enron: 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. He then executes a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that 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 your CFO who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on six more.
Arkansas: you have two cows. The one on the left is kinda cute.
Then there's this page that has a ton of them:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/You_have_two_cows/17