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Male |
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69 |
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United States, Arkansas, Crossett |
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Never |
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Rarely |
| Interests I'd like to share with others: |
Politics |
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Once upon a time, as most of these stories start, there was a rooster who got himself selected by the other animals in barnyard to represent them in the big assembly in which matters of “great importance” were decided. As often happens in these circumstances many, if not most, of the selected animals began to think they were more important than the animals who selected them. One of the manifistations of this self-importance was in a pile of corn intended to sustain the selectees in their travels from their respective farm yards to the Great Assembly and to other meetings to which they felt entitled to attend. Well, our little rooster began to eat the corn from the pile and he ate and ate and soon he began to regard it as his right to use it without fetters and especially without comments or critizism from the very animals who selected him to represent them in the first place!
In the course of time, the rooster's use of the corn was noted and reported by the widely heard Mule's Bray that the rooster had eaten more of the corn than any other animal of the entire assembly. Oh, he had his excuses and explanations, but they seemed to some to be thin and incomplete and even arrogant!
None of this was of any great moment nor particularly even surprising in light of what was considered “normal” in the assembly. “Take what you want, the animals back home will never know but they will pay!” No, all this behavior was just business as usual, even when, as it was then in barnyards far and wide, times were hard for lesser animals. No, this never even raised an eyebrow. Well, perhaps one eyebrow was raised which leads to the point of the whole story. One voice was raised in the barnyard. One comment was made in a very public forum. and the rooster's responce? well, the rooster deleted the remark and marked the owner of the small voice off the forum. No engagement, no response, just, in effect, killed the small voice for daring to suggest that the rooster had done wrong.
All tales of this sort have a moral and I guess that the moral to this one is: If you don't want to be muzzled, keep your nose out of the rooster's corn pile.
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