From Snowflakes to Anarchists: Aesop's "The Wolf and the Lamb"
Taking a pause from "Do You Love Me?" because I came across this Aesop fable that I believe is the parable for our times. I had always wondered how we moved so quickly from college snowflakes claiming safe spaces in order to air petty grievances and offenses to full-blown anarchists claiming several city blocks in order to violently riot, loot, and burn our cities.
The Wolf and the Lamb
A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock, and felt some compunction about taking the life of so helpless a creature without some plausible excuse; so he cast about for a grievance and said at last, "Last year sirrah, you grossly insulted me." "That is impossible, sir," bleated the Lamb, "for I wasn't born then." "Well," retorted the Wolf, you feed in my pastures." "That cannot be," replied the Lamb, "for I have never yet tasted grass." "You drink from my spring, then," continued the Wolf. "Indeed, sir," said the poor Lamb, "I have never drunk anything but my mother's milk." "Well, anyhow," said the Wolf, "I'm not going without my dinner": and he sprang upon the Lamb and devoured it without more ado.
Moral of the Fable:
Stray from the Truth and you will be devoured;
Don't mistake the anarchists for melting snowflakes.




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