Fables of Common Sense and Plain Truths
The Grasshopper and the Ants with the moral of the story being the grasshopper a warning against sloth, laziness, and an unhealthy disregard for the future; the ants a warning against having a parsimonious attitude perhaps best illustrates Aesop's fables presenting firm foundations of common sense with shrewd shots at uncommon sense. The fables are used, for better or worse, as allegories even in modern times to help adults and children understand complex realities of life. For example, the Euro crisis illustrated this when the dominant story in most major media outlets used Aesop's fable of The Grasshopper and the Ants as an allegory about the crisis in Europe. Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis described their story that "in the frozen mists of this awful winter, the southern grasshoppers are knocking on the northern ants' doors, cap in hand, seeking one bailout after the other. The ants, understandably, are coy and will only respond if the grasshoppers promise to change their ways. In short, the stocks that the ants accumulated for the heavy winter are being endangered by hungry, careless grasshoppers who resist changing their profligate ways." Germany portraying themselves at the ants and the Greeks as the grasshoppers is dishonest since there are "ants and grasshoppers" in both countries. In other words Europe's ants are not exclusively living in one country or region like northern and southern Europe. Aesop's fable was useful in the media in duping the "ants" by masking the real predators who privatized gains and distributed the pain the ants.
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Fables of Common Sense and Plain Truths
The Grasshopper and the Ants with the moral of the story being the grasshopper a warning against sloth, laziness, and an unhealthy disregard for the future; the ants a warning against having a parsimonious attitude perhaps best illustrates Aesop's fables presenting firm foundations of common sense with shrewd shots at uncommon sense. The fables are used, for better or worse, as allegories even in modern times to help adults and children understand complex realities of life. For example, the Euro crisis illustrated this when the dominant story in most major media outlets used Aesop's fable of The Grasshopper and the Ants as an allegory about the crisis in Europe. Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis described their story that "in the frozen mists of this awful winter, the southern grasshoppers are knocking on the northern ants' doors, cap in hand, seeking one bailout after the other. The ants, understandably, are coy and will only respond if the grasshoppers promise to change their ways. In short, the stocks that the ants accumulated for the heavy winter are being endangered by hungry, careless grasshoppers who resist changing their profligate ways." Germany portraying themselves at the ants and the Greeks as the grasshoppers is dishonest since there are "ants and grasshoppers" in both countries. In other words Europe's ants are not exclusively living in one country or region like northern and southern Europe. Aesop's fable was useful in the media in duping the "ants" by masking the real predators who privatized gains and distributed the pain the ants.
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| BN ID: | 2940161243404 |
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| Publisher: | Benjamin Rinehart |
| Publication date: | 07/11/2019 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 721 KB |
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