Carnivorous Cow

The Cow shook her head sadly. A comment posted to her blog had left her wondering about the relationship between politics and intelligence. "Of course," she remarked to Gramsci, "one often reads of cases of inbreeding being correlated to mental impairment. And throughout history, European royalty has been thick with examples."

Gramsci rolled his eyes at the pathetic pun. "What does inbreeding have to do with politics?" he asked.

"Well," the Cow sighed, "The white Right-wing is all for 'racial' purity, so they only breed with each other. Which, given that population increase for white people is in decline world-wides, but also locally, is an ever-shrinking gene pool. So that does amount to inbreeding, albeit currently on a marginally different scale."

Gramsci conceded the point. "True," he added, "plus of course they only associate with people who share their own views, and in places like Orania it's even sharper. Given the miniscule number of people who today confess to having ever supported apartheid, how they find anyone to breed with is beyond me!"

The Cow chuckled. "You need look no further than the first year blogs!" she pointed out. "Just the other day there was someone calling for a return of conscription 'as it was in the 80s'!"

Gramsci blanched - and then thought better of that, as it rendered him a potential hottie for the Right-wingers. "Surely not!" he spluttered in disbelief.

"Oh yes," insisted the Cow. "And what's more, raising the spectre of separate universities for separate colours!"

Gramsci was appalled. "Still," he conceded after some thought, "given what's on most students' agendas, at least in such institutions they'd have a better chance of finding breeding partners. Assuming, of course, an adequate supply of coffee and deserted stairs..."