Dear Friends,
It seems to me… we all would be wise to read a few children’s fables. The Boy Who Cried Wolf for example. For those who were not taught that ancient wisdom, the boy who cried wolf is a story about a boy, who seeks attention by lying. In doing so, he discredits himself, and so when there is real trouble, no one comes to his aid, and he dies as a result. Progressives do nothing but cry wolf. They attack Trump as being a stooge of Russia, even when the hoax is proven false, they keep up with it. They have tried to destroy Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh with false allegations, Justice Clarence Thomas was also attacked with a false allegation. Anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a racist. All are cries of wolf! Eventually they will have utterly discredited themselves.
In the fable of Pandora’s Box, Pandora is a naive child… who is told not to open a box. When she comes close however, beautiful voices in the box call her to open it. She opens it, and it is filled with stinging insects, biting bats, etc… The moral is not to open boxes, (or doors) that could lead to pain and suffering, no matter how beguiling the voices behind them might be. Progressives care nothing for the stings and bites though, the voices are so hypnotizing to them, others feel the stings anyway. Progressives, by temperament and nature, like to explore the unexplored, open unopened cartons and think out of the box. It is a necessary trait for human advancement… but untempered, puts our survival in jeopardy. That is why progressive monopoly on power is so dangerous.
The Horse that Lost it’s Liberty should be a cautionary tale for people as well. A horse and a stag argue over who owns a pasture. They fight and fight, each seeking the whole of it, neither willing to give an inch. Finally the horse gets the idea to bring a hunter in on his side. The man bridles and saddles the horse to drive off the stag, yet once the stag is driven off, the man refuses to free the horse. So, while gaining the pasture… the horse has lost his liberty. Many will yoke themselves to government, for any temporal want, without a thought. They are basically calling in the “hunter” (government) to side with them, and willingly accept a bridle to get it, and in doing so enslave all of us. That is why turning to government in anything and everything is so insidious… for both left and right.
Constitutionalists on the other hand… should learn the lesson of the Tortoise and the Hare. In that fable a Tortoise gets in a race with a hare. The hare considers the race a joke and treats it as such. When the gun goes off the hare races far ahead. Seeing the tortoise so far behind, the race is all but won, the hare takes a nap. Meanwhile the tortoise keeps on, slow but sure, gaining, until when the hare wakes up, the tortoise has won the race. Conservatives thought that since the quintessential lesson of the twentieth century, was the disastrous failure of socialism, they were way ahead in philosophy. Progressives followed the tortoise’s strategy, taking over education, the media, the bureaucracy and the judiciary. Now that constitutionalists have awoke… they find Progressives have all but won the race.
There is deep wisdom in ancient fables. They haven’t survived because they had no competition, they have survived since before the written word, because they embody truths that don’t lend themselves to explanation, other than by narration. Crying wolf will work for awhile, but eventually people will become wise to it. Opening Pandora’s boxes maybe exciting, but opening too many too fast, is certain disaster. Loosing one’s liberty for an ethereal gain, as in the Horse That Lost It’s Liberty, is the height of foolishness, but the stubborn will make that trade all day, every day. Moreover, sleeping on the job because of over confidence, will cause one to lose every race, ala the Tortoise and the Hare. Those who refuse to learn from our fables, are doomed to learn those lessons anyway… the hard way.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
