To Each According to their Knees

Once there were knees aplenty, sometimes the fortunate citizens of this glorious people’s paradise had a knee for each of their legs. Such times it was to be alive in a world filled with such wonders.

Unfortunately, then along came the evil capitalists who wanted to steal people’s knees away from them and give them back only the knees they could afford to pay for. This meant that the rich could have many knees while those at the bottom had none. Everyone could see how evil this was, so there was – in the end after a lot of history that only boring people with no life find interesting. Unfortunately, those who lack the necessary large-screen TVs - that can explain it all to them, with lots of explicit violence and plenty of full-frontal nudity – will not understand this important stage of history, but that should not matter too much and need not detain us here.

Anyway, in the end there was a glorious people’s revolution in which the beneficent People’s State, in its wisdom decided that it would distribute the necessary knees to those in most need – most of whom co-incidentally seemed to be high ups in the State – which was now the Party – or high up in the Party – which was now the State. Those in the party had al the knees they could ever use, while those at the bottom, not of the party had none. Everyone could see that this was much better than the evil capitalism… but none of them could explain why.