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Thu 7 Aug, 2008 11:41 am
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and
starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of
the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his
comfortable home with a table filled with food.
American's are stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and
everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house where the news stations film the group
singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the
group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the
ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper
in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried
before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed
from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the
last bits of the ant's food while the government house
he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of
spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
in reality, the ant has millions of friends in the same house ^^
All the grasshoppers need do is join the Republican work ethic and make themselves successful - Oops. The Republicans have sent the economy down the drain. The grasshoppers have to dodge the ants, who are falling like a blast of sawdust from a buzz saw. So much for doing as Republicans do.
Oh grasshopper, you have much to learn; and your point is?
..Wait until the locusts arrive!
Musta been an Army ant....
The republican ant comes back home crying and says, "Mommy the liberal grasshopper says I have a big head."
His mom replies, "No you don't be anti! You have a hideously deformed head. The grasshopper is merely hiding the truth to protect your feelings."
Moral of the story: If you don't think things can possibly get any worse
..Vota Obama!
You can just feel the leftist skin crawling can't you. "Oooh, a big nasty bug!"
If only life were so black and white.
Just blame someone else! It's not like we are all in this together or anything.
Somewhere in the past I have wondered whether this allegory implies that since insects function based on pre-programmed instinct, is the tale saying those that just enjoy the proverbial summer will never change, and those that work hard are just reflecting their natural inclination?
If that is true, and there is validity to the allegory, then the inference is that liberal thinking is incorrect, since those that are the recipients of social programs can never overcome their "grasshopper" hard-wired instincts, and are just an albatross on society.
Conservatives are therefore the more nobel creatures that do not, nor will not, be a parasite on society.
In effect, allegories can be strong medicine if one delves into deeper meanings.
I am surprised that today, to be politically correct, a more "kinder and gentler" version of the allegory has not been developed whereby the grasshopper just has "summer fiddlin' tendencies" and is medicated (SFS - Summer Fiddlin' Syndrome) so that he or she can concentrate and work hard like the over-achieving ant. In the "kinder and gentler" version the grasshopper has overcome his/her tendencies to "summer fiddlin'" and starts a non-profit center for the elimination of summer fiddlin'. The ant donates money to the non-profit and both are on the evening news smiling into the camera while shaking hands (or whatever they have to shake?).
Re: The Grasshopper and the Ant - Modern Version
cjhsa wrote:The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and
starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of
the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his
comfortable home with a table filled with food.
American's are stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and
everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house where the news stations film the group
singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the
group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the
ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper
in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried
before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed
from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the
last bits of the ant's food while the government house
he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of
spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
Meanwhile the locusts live in luxury in Washington, caring for neither the grasshoppers or the ants and doing all that is necessary to keep themselves well fed and comfortable while laughing together at the ignorance of both the grasshopper and the ant for believing the locusts ever gave a fig for them or their interests.
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