Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci (Adopted by Steve Jobs)
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A hungry Wolf came upon a House-dog.
“Cousin Wolf, are you hungry?” said the House-Dog. “Look at me! Why not get your food regularly provided by others?”
“I might, if I could only get a place,” said the Wolf.
“I can arrange it. Follow me,” said the House-Dog.
On the way, the Wolf noticed a wearing away of the House-Dog’s neck hair from a collar. “My oh my, Cousin Dog, what happened to your neck?” cried the Wolf.
“Oh, that is where my Master puts a collar upon me at night to keep me chained up.”
“Good-bye to you then, Cousin Dog. The pang of hunger in my stomach is much preferred to the clang of a chain to my neck.”
Moral of the Story: He who feeds us makes us his slave. (“Qui nos pascit, nos servum suum facit.”) To be free has a fee.
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Introduction – The Essential Aesop – Epilogue
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Why We Loved It: Aesop reminds us that nothing is free, and that benefits tend to have burdens. Nature, such as we know it, abhors utopia, but provides for those who work for it. [1] The vigilant are wise to be skeptical of offers that create systemic dependency. Reality is that the wages of life, are, well, in the real world, someone’s wages. It does not follow that the nobility in feeding others adduces nobility in being fed by others. He that giveth, is he who can command the cost or taketh away. [2, 3, 4]
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
[1] The Reason Why Political and Economic Systems Fail; The Executive Summary [#GRZ_145]
[2] On Empathy: To Give Empathy Is a Blessing; To Need Empathy Is a Curse [#GRZ_106]
[3] The Proseuché (The Prayer of Socrates) Ch. X-Finale [#GRZ_156]
[4] Socrates: What the World Gives, The World Can Take Away [#GRZ_139]
“Qui nos pascit, nos servum suum facit.” (“He who feeds us makes us his slave.”) ~grz
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