From Pine View Farm

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Jim Bachus, in the voice of Thurston Howell III:

Place your right hand on this pile of currency. . . . Now (repeat after me), I pledge allegiance to the spirit of money, to the color for which it stands, one currency divisible by ten, with luxury and affluence for the very fortunate few.

The writers of Gilligan’s Island meant this as a joke.

They did not anticipate that it would come to be the guiding principle of the Chicago School and of today’s Republican Party.

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