Puberty: A Marxist Reading
<Rosaline> Obviously he should have refrained from entering the puberty cheat codes <monica> everyone gets those <monica> some get more than otehrs
<Rosaline> must we turn puberty into Animal Farm <iM> What <yS> yes <yS> always <Rosaline> but it was traumatising enough for me without being associated with communist revolutions <yS> it's roughly as traumatic as communist revolutions <yS> good metaphor really <Rosaline> puberty = communist revolution <Rosaline> I can see it <Rosaline> lots of gruesome deaths <Rosaline> a lot of reorganizing of governing structure <Rosaline> blood everywhere <Rosaline> (I didn't want to go there but then I felt like a copout) <yS> State terrorism <yS> (well if you're going to) <Rosaline> random but loud and violent battles <iM> Lots of pain for everyone <yS> The rising of the proletariat <Rosaline> several years of suffering <yS> New growth <monica> then everything turns out alright at the end <monica> yes <monica> ? <iM> Eventually things return to stability <iM> But they're not as good as you remember them pre-revolution <yS> Until years later when it's clear that nothing is working anymore <Norton> the old ideals die and are replaced by self serving money-grubbing