We are all grasshoppers, instead of ants!
I trust you remember the fable of the grasshopper and the ant. You don't? Long story short, the grasshopper lived for today with no thought for tomorrow; the ant lived as though tomorrow is just as important as today, probably even more important!
That's our "grasshopper" society--instant gratification, no savings (if we are lucky enough to have anything left over at the end of the month), consuming mass quantities like SNL "Coneheads", filling our landfills with imperishables (like three-year-old computers, last year's cell phone, plastics, glass, etc.) and driving our lives away despite outrageous fuel prices.
But what will our world be like in say, one year? Take that out to 2016. How about when children born this year turn 30? Leave aside the massive debt GWB has run up in our names but without our express permission, what does the future look like?
Well, I received a link from my good friend, Ellen, that makes that point. This piece, and I trust you will read at least the first two paragraphs, makes the point in such a potent way, that I haven't been able to get it out of my head all day. Like a song lyric looping and looping through my brain, I can't forget it. Without referring to the fable anywhere in the piece, it reminds us that we must become ants, because--
...the grasshopper died when summer ended. And our autumn might be nearer than we think...
I trust you remember the fable of the grasshopper and the ant. You don't? Long story short, the grasshopper lived for today with no thought for tomorrow; the ant lived as though tomorrow is just as important as today, probably even more important!
That's our "grasshopper" society--instant gratification, no savings (if we are lucky enough to have anything left over at the end of the month), consuming mass quantities like SNL "Coneheads", filling our landfills with imperishables (like three-year-old computers, last year's cell phone, plastics, glass, etc.) and driving our lives away despite outrageous fuel prices.
But what will our world be like in say, one year? Take that out to 2016. How about when children born this year turn 30? Leave aside the massive debt GWB has run up in our names but without our express permission, what does the future look like?
Well, I received a link from my good friend, Ellen, that makes that point. This piece, and I trust you will read at least the first two paragraphs, makes the point in such a potent way, that I haven't been able to get it out of my head all day. Like a song lyric looping and looping through my brain, I can't forget it. Without referring to the fable anywhere in the piece, it reminds us that we must become ants, because--
...the grasshopper died when summer ended. And our autumn might be nearer than we think...
posted by VinylVenus | 7:33 PM
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