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My favorite reply to this (also not my story, author unknown): "The Mexican Fisherman is just the first half of The Grasshopper and the Ant" But then I wrote
by jasonkester 5y ago
My favorite reply to this (also not my story, author unknown):
"The Mexican Fisherman is just the first half of The Grasshopper and the Ant"
But then I wrote the article we're discussing here, so you can probably guess which camp I fall into.
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoThe grasshopper and the ant obviously happens in a place with harsh winters. This is not the case in most Mexican beaches, what with most of Mexico south of the Tropic of Cancer. It’s perfectly fine to know when and where you need to work hard to save for a snowy day, and when that’s not really necessary.
- jasonkester 5y agoIndeed, but the winter is just a metaphor for hard times. Whoever made the observation above will have meant to liken the fisherman’s current lifestyle to the summertime plenty, with the potential of “something happening” in the future to make that situation unsustainable representing the Winter. I think he might have even used the giant cannery from the mba’s plan as the thing that moved all the locals out of the ideallic village and caused that winter.