On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Neil Johnson wrote:
Satire imitates life:
I was watching "The Big Comfy Couch" (a children's show on PBS) with my three year old. Their revision of the fable was to have the ants invite the grasshopper in to their home for the winter because they realized they had no music to sing or dances to do.
The moral seemed to be 'We need the fools who laugh, sing, dance, and play the summer away, because they are "artists"'.
It pissed me off.
(I think the Ants singing "Nayah-Nayah-Nayah" while dancing on the Grasshopper's grave would have been sufficient).
You're not the only one. It is a sad state of affairs when this level of socialism invades our lives. What they should be teaching is self-respect and self-reliance coupled with a sense of community. Not pity and a 'class oriented' view of life. So much for 'equality' in the democratic sense. In a couple of more generations democracy will have spin-doctor morphed into a completely unrecognizable entity. ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------