DIANA S DESCHAMPS

Adah and the Great Seven

 

 

An Allegory Tale on Politics and the End of Taxes

 

 

​Adah doesn't want to vote for a Blue Jay. Adah also doesn't want to vote for a Cardinal. She knows neither of them will do anything to stop those Egg Snatching Snakes.

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They will just talk and brag and boast and promise how if they were elected, they would most assuredly, this time, once and for all, without a doubt,

end any snatching from the Snakes.

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Of course, it never happens.

 

The Snakes only get more brazen. And the birds only live in more fear; making them even more dependent on and susceptible to whoever it is they believe is the candidate with the best marketing scheme.

 

So Adah did the one thing that no one ever expects anyone to ever do to a political problem in the middle of a political campaign.

She decided to solve it.

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Adah, a Snowy Owl, rounds up an unlikely crew of imperious Eagles, fugitive Falcons and ostracized Ostriches and heads out to take on the leadership of the Snakes, the Great Seven Pythons of the Snake Kingdom. 

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The Great Seven Pythons represent the Seven Great Lies we tell ourselves for the necessity of taxation. Just as Adah squares up each one and frees herself from their ill-fated charms, we must also do the same in order to live in a world beyond taxation. And just as Adah knew she could do this without voting for a Cardinal or a Blue Jay, so too can we no matter who gets elected. 

 

This allegory tale on the end of taxes, plus quotes like the following: "The proof doesn't validate the theorem, the proof validates that the theorem needs no proof," make this compendium a must read for any and all who seek an intellectual challenge and inspiration for ideas and rhetoric beyond the same ole same ole

we are sold every campaign season. 

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"l'homme d'impôt est mort"