Mocking the poor

We all know the bourgeois elite hate the poor. But do we know they also mock the poor? In this emotional post, VS points out an advertisement which wants to hideously harp on the fact that ads for things such as cars and cosmetics are not meant for the poor. It is this blog’s opinion that such crassly materialist ads are not meant for the rich either who should rightfully not be rich in the first place.
But the thing which makes my blood boil is the way the ad cruelly puts down the poor in a manner which negates all of our work for the past many years.

For decades, we compassionate socialists have tried to make Indian poverty and filth respectable and dignified by relentlessly showcasing it in front of international audiences and writing articles about it. And now, these unabashed materialist-capitalists think they can demean poverty to crass glossy advertisements by which they hope to sway people into giving them money?

God, how crass can these materialist-imperialists get?

Reform

HyperTree is a hyper tree-hugger. And considering that a greedy capitalist somewhere is getting richer every time you refuse to hug a tree, you my dear reader better be one too. Sometimes, HyperTree wishes it could also be a blog hugger; for it yearns to hug this cute blog: HTOHL. HTOHL is a blog with an incisively emotional take on issues facing the nation while bravely standing up to the imperialist blog-cartel; a group of shadowy bourgeois elite who would like to impose a suffocating hegemony where people are not free to test the boundaries of logical fallacies and where coherence and consistency become not cute guidelines but a fascist necessity, and where innocent bloggers cry every morning they get out of bed at the mere thought of living under such fascism.

I however take exception to this post in this otherwise excellent blog. The post starts off by asking the question, “But why are we reforming?”. I feel this is already falling into the devious trap set by the fascist capitalists. The question we should be asking is, “But why are we not throwing the reformers into jail?”. This I feel would set the bar at the place it should be: on the jail-cells of the incarcerated imperialists.

Come to think of it, even the word “reform” is unacceptable. Can the brutal yanking of the economic reins from innocent government by rapacious businessmen be considered “reform”? Do we want to call “reform”, the stealing of candy from innocent ten-year old kids whose tree has just been cut down; by big burly businessmen with twirling moustaches?
Sigh, much work has to be done, comrades, much work.