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Reference to Aesop's fable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belly_and_the_Members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belly_and_the_Members

• cryzinger 1mo ago
  > The present understanding is that the tale's moral supports team effort and recognition of the vital part that all members play in it. In more authoritarian times, however, the fable was taken to affirm direction from the centre. Oof.
• dredmorbius 29d ago
  Exactly what I was going to post. Here's a direct link to ... several versions of ... the fable: <https://fablesofaesop.com/the-belly-and-the-members.html https://fablesofaesop.com/the-belly-and-the-members.html>