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WESTERN
WORK ETHIC |
What are work ethics?Two definitions: ORIGINAL
VERSION The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. |
MODERN
AMERICAN VERSION
The
ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying
up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Then a representative of the NAGB (The national association of green bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with green bias, and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism.
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's not easy being green." Michelle Obama makes a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned host that she will do everything she can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Bush administration. Van Jones exclaims, in an interview with Stephen Colbert, that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal hearing officers that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare moms who can only hear cases on Thursday's between 1:30 and 3 PM.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.
And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Barak Obama standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.
NOW, THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE WHOLE MESS
What follows is a TED presentation. It is one of the most startling discussions of work, especially the aspect of being happy at work. I promise you this..... this will make you think, and it may liberate you from something.
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NOW,
HERE IS ANOTHER ARTICLE I WROTE
THAT
MAY HELP YOU AS A BIBLE BELIEVER
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