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Once there were three little pigs who lived together in mutual respect
and in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were
indigenous to the area, they each built a beautiful house. One pig built a
house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay
and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When
they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled
back to live in peace and self-determination.
But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf
with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry, in
both the physical and ideological sense. When the pigs saw the wolf,
they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and
banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"
The pigs shouted back, "Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs
defending their homes and culture."
But the wolf wasn't to be denied what he thought was his manifest
destiny. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew down the house of
straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in
hot pursuit. Where the house of straw had stood, other wolves bought
up the land and started a banana plantation. At the house of sticks, the
wolf again banged on the door and shouted,
"Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"
The pigs shouted, "Go to ---, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!"
At this, the wolf chuckled condescendingly. He thought to himself:
"They are so childlike in their ways. It will be a shame to see them go,
but progress cannot be stopped."
So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The
pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels.
Where the house of sticks stood, other wolves built a time-share condo
resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fiberglass
reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops,
snorkeling, and dolphin shows.
At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted,
"Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"
This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote
letters of protest to the United Nations.
By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the
situation from the carnivore's point of view. So he huffed and he
puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over
dead of a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty
foods.
The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little
dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate
their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had
been forced off their lands. Their new brigade of porcinistas attacked
the resort complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and
slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the
rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the
pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal
health care, and affordable housing for everyone.
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