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RE: Challenge #01472-D011: Lawful Suspicion

in #fiction7 years ago

Tuppence is the British terms for two cents. To translate the phrase tuupenxe more and up goes the donkey. Two cents more and up goes the democracy. The two cents the political world sees is monetary and the two cents the citizens see is their opinion or voice. They pay their two cents worth for the donkey to go up but the leaders never receive their actual two cents in terms that lead to better life. It is a quest for this not to be evolution of our current society, right?! To share voices unheard to get the donkey up is what many do through social media. The mass media is headed to a way of political correctness that tones out voices portraying a slight different opinion than their "marketed target audience." Who is this audience other than their "ideal loyal customer." I have a writing prompts for you. Imagine waking up from a coma in a hospital were you were no longer called a patient but the term consumer was used, the care you received was based on the cost of doing business not your outcome as a patient, the normal systems and avenues to access resources had all changed massively and when you ask how long you were in a coma you find out that the coma didn't exist. That your family was changed, that the people you once loved were almost humanly at times but in certain flashes they resembled blood soaked monsters who feed on kindness and generosity, that a few good people in leadership positions try to fight the invasion, but the whole world is looking to you because you what? Woke up to a "new world order", that you were "immune to the inflected antidote", that you were the last "human" on earth, etc. where does she/he go from that point in their journey?

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I like your chain of logic, there, my friend. The actual roots of "tuppence more" goes back to the travelling carnie days [quite a lot longer back than you might think] when travelling entertainers would load up one of their mules with all kinds of crap and have the strong man flexing and showing off nearby.

A barker would implore the crowd for "tuppence more" so the strong man would lift the donkey, burden and all. Of course, it was a scam. They always needed two more pennies, and the donkey never went up.

In parallel with how "trickle down" economics always needs more from the poor and middle class "for the benefit of all"...

And I will keep your prompt in mind if my forum continues to be naughty.

My mom had a friend once who was always trying to convince me to run off to the carnival or circus with her to make a living off our oddities. To this day when I see this lady she says you ready to join the carnie and I reply yes Judy let's go.

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