ROFLMAO!! Cartoons can be great eye-openers. A new favorite of mine is a recent "SpongeBob SquarePants" cartoon in which SpongeBob and Mr. Snerdley (the octopus) have joined together to go on strike to force their employer, Mr. Crab, to give them a raise. Mr. Snerdley fills the naive SpongeBob's mind with Leftist platitudes about the oppressive Owner Class holding down the Working Man and the corresponding Evils of Capitalism. Then, while Mr. Snerdley and Mr. Crab go off by themselves to renegotiate a raise for Mr. Snerdley and SpongeBob, the confused SpongeBob takes it upon himself to vandalize/destroy his place of employment--the Krusty Krab--as his Blow against Capitalism. When Mr. Snerdley and Mr. Crab return to the smoldering pile of rubble that once was the Krusty Krab, it still fails to dawn on SpongeBob that without the Owner/Employer Class, there is no Worker/Employee Class, and therefore no income for any of them.
On another level, my three-year-old and my six-year-old thought the episode was hilarious, as did their dad.
SpongeBob SquarePants ROCKS...MUD
