Hey,
Reference link: https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2010/08/milton_hershey_school_instruct.html
We learned about this in high school, though I don't think the cow was named Lulu at the time. Just happens to be my childhood nickname. Gotta be a coincidence. There was another Lulu at school too anyway.
That's not the point, but it is weird.
Anyway, focus on the metaphor of the cow with a hole cut in its side. The cow stays alive but you can see how everything works. If you killed the cow, obviously you couldn't see how it works anymore.
Some things in the world are a hole in the side of the cow, letting us see and explain how it works - but if we dismantled it completely (killed the cow) it would just hide the truth.
I also use the metaphor of a demented amusement park a lot. It's as if the world were a park build with a kind spirit, but it exchanged owners over the years. Let's say the 3rd owner was a total asshole and restructured all the rides into death traps. It takes years before the 7th generation of owners realizes that these rides were designed to hurt people and they return the park to its original kind hearted intent.
Oh and America is a haunted house. Each room a different moment in history with monsters and victims. It would be a right of passage every year and maintains that balanced mindset where you remember, understand, and truly empathize with horrors of the past but you come out alive to make the world outside better and aren't just trapped in history hell forever...unless you don't care...dun dunn dunnnn (for real though). I've been working on the concept for years. It could be a story or an actual haunted house. Imagine Banksy designing it.
I could go on but those seem most important to lay out for future reference. They're part of a larger "Candyland Capitalism" concept. Think of the candyland playboard overlayed on maps of the world - both global and localized scales. Zoomed in and out.
There are these currents of people being pushed around the world for work and war. People all over deliberately kept in poverty at different levels to maintain a pressure on the currents. The turn over gives opportunity to the business owning class to filter populations, absorb stars and assets. The fear is how they treat the people they don't find a use for. I see people getting "pushed back" on the "gameboard" and forced to start over - that could mean being physically displaced or economically knocked down until they're evicted and no one tracks them after that. Rock and a hard place to have a system that could track where people are for their safety but not also get used for the wrong people to find anyone. I think it's safer to have an identification system than none - but I understand the choice to give one's identity up instead. It makes it easier to push you around through the candyland system though.
It isn't entirely about candy alone, but candy (sugar, chocolate, nuts, milk) is a perfect way to show these networks. Obviously it hits me deeply. From child labor to the school I went to and how no one even seems to care what happened to 70% of the kids over the past 100 years. Yes there are success stories but when you look at the big picture - look at the "values" being instilled - both for better and worse - it could be used to tell people "who gets allowed to be parents" (which sucks) or it could scream that the whole system of the world is a crime against existence and must change to accommodate human need over the endless processessing of the planet for the end goals of the draags (see Fantastic Planet: https://youtu.be/23o4De9V0So?si=EOTYA8V6lhRm61vz ) I'll give you log in info if you wanna watch the movie. The fighting scene with the oms comes up as a way to explain things a lot too.
We need universal human rights no matter the flag, philosophy, or authority.
Talk to you next - . May cool(er) things happen to everyone until then,
L.
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