FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
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 of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put 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 eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the 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.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
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. Then 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.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Now this will either help you understand or it will confuse you even more, but I found it helpful in how it simply described governments with cows. Where do you guys think Brave New World's government falls? I was thinking something that looks and feels like Pure Socialism but is actually Russian Communism since the people keep the stability by following orders, but the government really takes away everything that makes them human... and maybe some Surrealism too just to account for the soma holidays.
Oh and here's the original link in case you were curious: http://www.sjgames.com/illuminati/politics.html
Brave New World's is a totalitarian government. With a command economy. At least that's what it seems like to me.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Raul, but totalitarianism covers several types of governments. For example, Fascism, Russian Communism, and Dictatorship all fall under totalitarianism. They're sublevels of it. I'm asking what specifically would Brave New World fall under?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the government represented in Brave New World was a branch of liberal Cambodian communism because they used the people for their labor, supplied them with a drug, and essentially shot them over time. In the end they died by the drug, and the government got the labor and the revenue made by them. They made the people to consume and work, that is all. You may try to argue that this is fascism, but a fascist society does not openly kill their citizens. Huxley's world just does this nicely.
ReplyDeleteCambodia sounds like a pleasant place to be.
ReplyDeleteI think the Brave New World is a mix of Cambodian Communism and pure Socialism. Instead of milk however, I think that the payment would be "soma" and they would give you as much as you need to be agreeable to society. Once, however, you began to be uncomfortable in society, as John was when he threw the soma out in front of the Delta twins, you would be "shot" like in the Cambodian Communism.