The Virgosign on life's rat race.
One of Aesop's more popular fable is that of the Hare and the Tortoise famous race, in which, the hare being fast and was well ahead of his slow friend, foolishly takes a nap before crossing the finishing line. The hare oversleeps and the tortoise wins the race.And the audience sheep went numb!
Brilliant lesson to be learned you would think. Slow and wise not fast and foolish.
Except that in today's life's rat-race, it's not the finishing line that matters, but the race itself. The race for enriching oneself as quickly as one can, amassing wealth and position even to the detriment of all others, and the planet itself. It's the commas in the bank amount that matters. Never mind the ruining of the environment, the non-existing spatial greenery, the suffocation of the bathing waters, the plastic in the oceans, the noise decibels in industrial and building production, the fake entertainment industry with fun pills and powder, and the selfish, unscrupulous politicians dominating everywhere .... and the list goes on and on.
The modern finishing of Aesop's fable would be that the hare couldn't finish the race because he died under all his weighty wealth.
And the tortoise crossed the line, won the race and died sad and broke because of the thieving, cheating, lying hare !
And all the sheep were clapping for they thought it was a great race.
Peace
