CDR: Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

[Jim Choate]

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.

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