When there is effective tyranny, there is bliss.

[­­­Atlas_]

When farmers want cattle to produce the best milk they don't confine them to the same utilitarian and crowded feedhouses we see with typical livestock.

Originally farmers would make sure they had sufficient shade, plenty of water and pasture to graze in. However, as the demand for efficiency came, more dairy cows had to be raised. Acres upon acres of shaded pasture no longer sufficed. Today you will see giant diary cows entranced in a giant moving carousel by which they feed, soothing them and relaxing them as they are voluntarily milked. Yes, I said voluntarily. Instead of the farmer routinely milking the cows, they now milk themselves as they please using automated machinery with the act rewarded with food. This relaxes them and gives them the illusion of freedom and thus they produce more and better milk.

This analogy almost perfectly applies to people. As chattel slaves we are unskilled and produce very little value. As purportedly free and taxed citizens, we can learn various skills and produce valuable labor and goods.

Thus unfortunately, if there will ever be comprehensive, omnipotent tyranny, it will be one of bliss and ecstasy. Very few will resist. Power is only as good as its output and happy citizens are the most effective citizens.

[RandyFolds]

When farmers want cattle to produce the best milk they don't confine them to the same utilitarian and crowded feedhouses we see with typical livestock.

Originally farmers would make sure they had sufficient shade, plenty of water and pasture to graze in. However, as the demand for efficiency came, more dairy cows had to be raised. Acres upon acres of shaded pasture no longer sufficed. Today you will see giant diary cows entranced in a giant moving carousel by which they feed, soothing them and relaxing them as they are voluntarily milked. Yes, I said voluntarily. Instead of the farmer routinely milking the cows, they now milk themselves as they please using automated machinery with act rewarded with food. This relaxes them and gives them the illusion of freedom and thus they produce more and better milk.

This analogy almost perfectly applies to people. As chattel slaves we are unskilled and produce very little value. As purportedly free and taxed citizens, we can learn various skills and produce valuable labor and goods.

Thus unfortunately, if there will ever be comprehensive, omnipotent tyranny, it will be one of bliss and ecstasy. Very few will resist. Power is only as good as its output and happy citizens are the most effective citizens.

I grew up in the midwest, surrounded by cattle farms and working on my cousins dairy farm every summer. I have never seen such a carousel, and I have sure as hell not seen a cow 'voluntarily' milk itself.

Maybe it exists, but it's probably in the UAEE or something.

[­­­Atlas_]

When farmers want cattle to produce the best milk they don't confine them to the same utilitarian and crowded feedhouses we see with typical livestock.

Originally farmers would make sure they had sufficient shade, plenty of water and pasture to graze in. However, as the demand for efficiency came, more dairy cows had to be raised. Acres upon acres of shaded pasture no longer sufficed. Today you will see giant diary cows entranced in a giant moving carousel by which they feed, soothing them and relaxing them as they are voluntarily milked. Yes, I said voluntarily. Instead of the farmer routinely milking the cows, they now milk themselves as they please using automated machinery with act rewarded with food. This relaxes them and gives them the illusion of freedom and thus they produce more and better milk.

This analogy almost perfectly applies to people. As chattel slaves we are unskilled and produce very little value. As purportedly free and taxed citizens, we can learn various skills and produce valuable labor and goods.

Thus unfortunately, if there will ever be comprehensive, omnipotent tyranny, it will be one of bliss and ecstasy. Very few will resist. Power is only as good as its output and happy citizens are the most effective citizens.

I grew up in the midwest, surrounded by cattle farms and working on my cousins dairy farm every summer. I have never seen such a carousel, and I have sure as hell not seen a cow 'voluntarily' milk itself.

Maybe it exists, but it's probably in the UAEE or something.

It's a recent innovation. It's only a profitable investment for massive dairy farms at the moment, if I recall correctly.

[ineededausername]

How many analogies to slavery have you posted already?

[MoonShadow]

When farmers want cattle to produce the best milk they don't confine them to the same utilitarian and crowded feedhouses we see with typical livestock.

Originally farmers would make sure they had sufficient shade, plenty of water and pasture to graze in. However, as the demand for efficiency came, more dairy cows had to be raised. Acres upon acres of shaded pasture no longer sufficed. Today you will see giant diary cows entranced in a giant moving carousel by which they feed, soothing them and relaxing them as they are voluntarily milked. Yes, I said voluntarily. Instead of the farmer routinely milking the cows, they now milk themselves as they please using automated machinery with act rewarded with food. This relaxes them and gives them the illusion of freedom and thus they produce more and better milk.

This analogy almost perfectly applies to people. As chattel slaves we are unskilled and produce very little value. As purportedly free and taxed citizens, we can learn various skills and produce valuable labor and goods.

Thus unfortunately, if there will ever be comprehensive, omnipotent tyranny, it will be one of bliss and ecstasy. Very few will resist. Power is only as good as its output and happy citizens are the most effective citizens.

I grew up in the midwest, surrounded by cattle farms and working on my cousins dairy farm every summer. I have never seen such a carousel, and I have sure as hell not seen a cow 'voluntarily' milk itself.

Maybe it exists, but it's probably in the UAEE or something.

It's a recent development.  It's based on the idea that the cow has some kind of control over it's world, however small, and so the cow is generally happier.  It doesn't seem to alter the productivity of the individual cow significantly, but the incidence of any particular cow going bonkers and harming themselves inside their own pen has been reduced.

[RandyFolds]

When farmers want cattle to produce the best milk they don't confine them to the same utilitarian and crowded feedhouses we see with typical livestock.

Originally farmers would make sure they had sufficient shade, plenty of water and pasture to graze in. However, as the demand for efficiency came, more dairy cows had to be raised. Acres upon acres of shaded pasture no longer sufficed. Today you will see giant diary cows entranced in a giant moving carousel by which they feed, soothing them and relaxing them as they are voluntarily milked. Yes, I said voluntarily. Instead of the farmer routinely milking the cows, they now milk themselves as they please using automated machinery with act rewarded with food. This relaxes them and gives them the illusion of freedom and thus they produce more and better milk.

This analogy almost perfectly applies to people. As chattel slaves we are unskilled and produce very little value. As purportedly free and taxed citizens, we can learn various skills and produce valuable labor and goods.

Thus unfortunately, if there will ever be comprehensive, omnipotent tyranny, it will be one of bliss and ecstasy. Very few will resist. Power is only as good as its output and happy citizens are the most effective citizens.

I grew up in the midwest, surrounded by cattle farms and working on my cousins dairy farm every summer. I have never seen such a carousel, and I have sure as hell not seen a cow 'voluntarily' milk itself.

Maybe it exists, but it's probably in the UAEE or something.

It's a recent innovation. It's only a profitable investment for massive dairy farms at the moment, if I recall correctly.

I also regularly drive past one of the largest concentrations of meat and dairy cattle in the US, stinking it up along the I5 in California's central valley. No carousels.

Your analogy is incredibly flawed. Cows need to be milked or they will suffer horrible and painful health consequences. They aren't being 'enslaved', carousel or no, they are being maintained, as they are now domesticated animals. I want some numbers and links to this 'technology'.

If you spent any amount of time with bovine, you would know that they are about the most retarded animal you can find. They have no concept of 'control' or 'happiness'. Hell, fish learn faster than cattle...

[­­­Atlas_]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cow+carousel&oq=cow+carousel&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=9171l10797l0l10924l12l12l0l4l4l0l225l1171l1.5.2l8l0

Cow + Carousel in Google. That's all it took.

[Hawker]

I grew up on a dairy farm.  Cows love being milked and suffer pain if you are late.  They also get mastitis if you don't milk thoroughly.

Not entirely sure how it applies to tyranny but that's a very nice machine.  Thanks for the link.

[Rassah]

OP is paraphrasing The Matrix...

[322i0n]

op needs some one to milk him.

[Bitcoin Oz]

The revolution will be medicated.

They are already talking about adding lithium to the water supplies to prevent suicide. Let alone the flouride and all the ritalin that comes from sewerage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8025454.stm

[MoonShadow]

The revolution will be medicated.

Mmmmm... Soma....

[RandyFolds]

The revolution will be medicated.

Mmmmm... Soma....

You're a fan? That stuff leaves me hung over and groggy for days.

[MoonShadow]

The revolution will be medicated.

Mmmmm... Soma....

You're a fan? That stuff leaves me hung over and groggy for days.

Then you're doing it wrong.  You're supposed to keep using it, so that you're just groggy, not hung over.