Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Aesop Said

Do you know what people hate? People hate f____ups!

So Sister Winter Wind and Sister Summer Sun were sitting on the stoop and a man walked by wearing his winter coat. It was a cool day. They made a bet on who could get the man to take off his coat. So Winter Wind set to work and it took 10 minutes before she called it quits. Summer Sun got up and one second later the coat was off, slung over the shoulder, bet won.

The moral of the story is: boringly obvious.

Interestingly, analytically, as this fable forms a base to our legal system, all one has to do to circumvent a sincere offer is to get the person with the money to withdraw the offer, or to negate the offer, often by the means of stimulating a stream of abuse from the person who is going to purchase your services. Then one creates a true stance of "I just can't deal with the abuse". This thumbnail description may be shallow, but its definitely a real McTrick.

McTrick is an American version of "Loki", the Norwegian trickster god. wiki link Loki tragically lacks a certain amount of self-recognition, and he is always being roundly abused for being a trickster. Duh. Not so for McTrick, it's a telling difference. People are sick of being tricked, so he's selling the farm. It's a Korean kind of thing to do, if you want to know. Or maybe it's Siberian.

See you in the funny papers, Loki!

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