{"id":12878,"date":"2019-01-11T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:30:01","slug":"the-martian-anal-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/funny\/the-martian-anal-division\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MARTIAN ANAL DIVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"float-right\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE MARTIAN ANAL DIVISION<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"PostsList__post_container\">\n<div class=\"Post\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<article class=\"PostFull hentry\">\n<div class=\"PostFull__body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>I once wrote about a short story by Philip K Dick, called \u201cThe Martian Anal Division\u201d, and it was about a parallel version of our world in which everything is run by and for the benefit of a small but cunning collection of Martian invaders. It was an analogy for society in general but right now it&#8217;s a pretty good analogy for some of what is going on here on Steemit.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111302_321498339-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111302_321498339-01-500x281.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111302_321498339-01-500x281.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111302_321498339-01-200x113.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111302_321498339-01.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They live in tiny spaceships which they insert into their subjects anal passages. From deep within human anuses they emit their instructions, which their followers hear as a voice in their anus telling them what to do. These people are known as the Martian Anal Division (MAD).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111714_972731754-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111714_972731754-01-500x334.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111714_972731754-01-500x334.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111714_972731754-01-200x134.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111714_972731754-01-272x182.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111714_972731754-01.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the key symptoms of people who are controlled by Martians up their arses is that they not only want to do what the Martians tell them to, but that they also want to force everyone else to do it as well. They often revert to the phrase \u201cfor the greater good\u201d, and want to bring in \u201claws\u201d in the hope that they can force other people to \u201cconform\u201d to the wishes of the voices in their arses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111815_1378420043-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111815_1378420043-01-500x228.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111815_1378420043-01.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111815_1378420043-01-200x91.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to get a better handle on controlling the non-MAD population, they introduce social engineering such as water fluoridation (make the population sick and obedient), vaccinations (make them sick and infertile), fear of \u201cterrorism\u201d (submit to more laws and surveillance), fear of various \u201cglobal apocalypses\u201d (submit to more restrictions and taxes), and wars (the ultimate control system)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111600_1161183879-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111600_1161183879-01-500x375.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111600_1161183879-01-500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111600_1161183879-01-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111600_1161183879-01.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also direct everyone with an anal implant to watch more TV, where they can obsess over misinformation called \u201cnews\u201d, listen to angry black men making guttural rhyming noises about hoes, yos, and bros, become jealous over the size of the breast implants of women who sing the things that the voices in their arses are saying, and enjoy watching stocky men in tight shorts battling each other over leather balls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111636_1171125659-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111636_1171125659-01-500x404.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111636_1171125659-01.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111636_1171125659-01-200x162.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, for all their cunning, the Martians have some serious flaws in their evil plan. When they insert their micro spacecraft into their victim\u2019s anal passages, it tends to block their elimination of waste matter. So their victims slowly fill up with shit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111740_804178046-02.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111740_804178046-02-500x244.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111740_804178046-02.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111740_804178046-02-200x98.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already pressurized to bursting point, when they are confronted by people who refuse to conform, they start to turn purple and run around in circles making squawking noises like a chicken having an epileptic fit. Sometimes the backed up gasses start to escape from their arse like a loud rumbling fart, while sometimes they just blow up like an American false flag terrorists bomb\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111859_1708771563-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111859_1708771563-01-500x236.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111859_1708771563-01.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20190111_111859_1708771563-01-200x94.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20181224_200350_178624817-02.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20181224_200350_178624817-02-500x283.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20181224_200350_178624817-02-500x283.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20181224_200350_178624817-02-200x113.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GoArt_20181224_200350_178624817-02.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-PHOTO-ART-654733778-02-01-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-PHOTO-ART-654733778-02-01-1-500x120.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-PHOTO-ART-654733778-02-01-1-500x120.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-PHOTO-ART-654733778-02-01-1-200x48.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-PHOTO-ART-654733778-02-01-1.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MARTIAN ANAL DIVISION I once wrote about a short story by Philip K Dick, called \u201cThe Martian Anal Division\u201d, and it was about a parallel version of our world in which everything is run by and for the benefit of a small but cunning collection of Martian invaders. 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