METAPHOR EXAMPLE: The Mouse, the Cat, and the Homeowner

METAPHOR (read to the end, of course; or else why even start?):

A lot of people don't understand extended metaphor, so I am here to help.  Take this instance: there is this cat to catch the mice that are eating the homeowner's food and pooping on the counter.
     
Now look at it metaphorically: in this instance the homeowner is the very rich.  He thinks he owns the food; all of it, anywhere.  You are the MICE.  You just want a home and to feed your family, but the homeowner refuses to share any stored or fresh food.  So you are forced to steal it.  So the homeowner gets law enforcement, that's the cat.  If the cat doesn't do it, the homeowner hires Blackwater (or whatever their name is today); that's like SWAT (Specialized Weasel Attack Team). If that doesn't work, the homeowner will use poison; that's like Monsanto teaming up with the petroleum industry.  The mouse poop is incidental -- unless you are a litterbug -- then you deserve to get caught, eaten, or worse (live trap/Guantanamo), for 1) exposing mouse activity, and 2) dirtying up the environment for everyone.

See?  Metaphor is simple, isn't it?

EXCEPT for the fact that the homeowner didn't build his house; he used your labor and pays you crumbs.  The homeowner doesn't pay for the police: he passes laws so you are taxed and THAT money pays for the cops/cats.  But, being fair, the homeowner uses his OWN money to hire the weasels to hunt and kill you.  The rest of the trillions of dollars you (the MICE) pay in taxes goes to build weapons of war -- military R&D (companies the homeowner OWNS) and weapons manufacturers (companies that the homeowner OWNS) that give your money to him in a kind of bank shot (oops, that's another metaphor) -- all so the homeowner can steal resources from other places and other mice and even other homeowners.

[not at the end yet]

MARGIN OF ERROR:  Calling these rich guys "homeowners" is a bit awkward.  They have houses, lots of them, BIG houses, but they don't live in them.  They move around a lot.  In fact, they don't live on Earth ... I mean; not unless they would destroy all wildlife in/on their homes to suit themselves.  All the mice, both inside and outside, could die and they would see nothing wrong with that.  In fact, the MICE who would like to become homeowners are cheated of their chance by the BANKERS ... a banker is an arm of the "homeowners" that is empowered to steal, by means fair and foul, mouse nests.

There, that's not quite the end ... but there will be no one left to tell the story if these predatory Owners of Earth have their way much longer ... like a box of maggots left until the maggots eat one another and no one is left but the biggest maggot of all.

But that's another metaphor, isn't it?