The Cubeshifter

A woman comes across a gelatinous cube sitting in a cube shaped hole in an embankment made of clay. The woman is very liberal, has a septum piercing, a piece symbol tattooed on her wrist, and blue hair. She scoops the gelatinous material out of its cube shaped hole and packs it in a tupperware container and takes it home. She pours the gelatinous shape shifter onto her granite countertop and begins rolling it out with a rolling pin to make it flat. She says "you can take any shape you want! You are no longer bound by capitalism or the conventions of society! I will EDUCATE YOU to be all kinds of wonderful things."

The gelatinous shapeshifter goes SSSSHUPP and takes the form of a cube 5" x 5" x 5."

Talking to the gelatinous cube she says "the first thing you need to learn about being anti-capitalist is that everything is a construct and we are oppressed by capitalism and patriarchy. To teach you I'm going to have to help you take a different shape." She begins to shape it into a log and then a long snake like form then she spirals it around until it forms a coil. She steps back and she says "see you can be a snake."

The gelatinous shapeshifter goes SSSSHUPP and takes the form of a cube.

She says, "I see that we have a lot of work to do to get through your trauma but I think in time you'll realize that you don't have to take the shape of a cube. Maybe we could try exposure therapy, maybe you could take the shape of a rectangle instead?" She begins to flatten the cube slightly. She is taking a more gentle approach, she makes the cube a little flatter, only about 4 in high instead of five.

The now cuboid shapeshifter goes SSHUPP and takes the form of a perfect cube.

She looks at it, exasperated and decides to go to bed. She literally wags her finger at it and shames it, and says "we will continue to do the work tomorrow." Then she turns out the lights and goes to bed. 

In the middle of the night the cube begins to slither across the countertop, it drops on the floor and then rolls towards the front door. It stretches itself under the door and out of the house, then turns into a wheel and begins rolling away. While the woman is sleeping an idea comes to her that she might use a knife to cut the cube in half. Maybe if she separates part of itself it will be able to learn. This wakes her up and she goes downstairs to the kitchen but the cube is already gone.

The gelatinous shapeshifter finds an embankment made of clay, digs a hole precisely 5" x 5" x 5" and pours itself into it. It can now relax since it no longer has to maintain its own shape. It can be the shape it wants without having to expend effort now. "Boy was that a stressful experience! But now I am back in my cube shaped hole safe and sound" it thinks.

The cube is society, the cube shaped hole is "capitalism."  That hole was not oppressing the cube, not forcing it to take that shape. It wants to be a cube, wants to be what it is, and will not be educated out of it. It dug that cube shaped hole precisely so it could relax. It dug every cube shape hole on that entire embankment. The cube is its lowest energy state, it's most relaxed condition. It might not be native to that planet but it lives there now. This is a Cubeshifter after all and the smallest amount of economic education could have taught her that all Cubeshifters seek to be cube shaped.

This entire story is an allegory for capitalism, society, and leftists. The form society sit in is not it's prison, and society likes a cube shaped hole. Humans are a Cubeshifter.