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To: epicure who wrote (52230)	8/20/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Ants can also become grasshoppers: Two farmers bought a truckload of watermelons, paying one dollar apiece for them. Then they drove to the market and sold all their melons for the same price they'd paid for them. After counting their money at the end of the day, they realize they'd ended up with no more money than they'd started with. "See!" said one. "I told you we shoulda got a bigger truck."

To: epicure who wrote (52230)	8/20/1999 1:19:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

Jesus, X, I am sorry. It's not my fault, and I can't make it better, but it does make me sad, and I wish I could have made it better.

To: epicure who wrote (52230)	8/20/1999 2:39:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, reading that is like a knife to the heart. It makes me so sad, for your grandmother and your mother. It makes me sad for humanity, I guess. It's late, I should go to bed, I think. I'm so sorry, X.

To: epicure who wrote (52230)	8/20/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, of course my "good for you" was meant as applause for your speaking out against neo-Social Darwinism. Never underestimate the power of a discredited idea to revive. The subtext of much discussion of social issues today is again the presumption that the law of social life is "survival of the fittest," and that those who survive and prosper are obviously the "fittest." Again it is even fashionable to say -- with a straight face, mind you -- things like: "the poor are poor because they want to be," or "it is not only good policy, but morally right, to allow the weak and unfit to fall by the wayside." And again we are hearing reductive little moral fables about grasshoppers and ants! (Strange that radical individualists should identify with ants, incidentally.) I submit that there are a lot more insects around than just grasshoppers and ants. As your sad experience has clearly taught you. Joan