Re: Betrayel

On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:25:46 +0100, one <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds to me like stereotyping straw people.
> A story told similar to the well-frog and sea-turtle.
> One is reminded, at times, how happy the frog was
> and how the turtle was unable to see what was
> in the well about which the frog was happy.

### - (smile) if the turtle in that story had never appeared then the  
question about the frog being happy or not wouldn't have ever arisen, that  
life (that perception of life) was all that frog ever knew and was  
familiar with and so he lived as best he could within the confines of the  
well which was his home, he didn't even think to question it, after all it  
was all he'd ever known...

the turtle turning-up on the scene alters the picture, however, after  
roaming around in the larger world outside he meets a happy frog stuck  
down a well, a lovely average frog who isn't even complaining about his  
situation and has made a life for himself down there because there isn't  
any other choice for him...

that turtle, however, has perhaps seen and met other average frogs living  
in the wider world above, where it's obvious to anyone there that this is  
where all frogs belong, their natural environment, and like everything  
else they are part of the wider world, it's their natural home... so when  
he happens upon a frog whose been living down a well for several  
generations he considers that to be a limited existence for a frog who  
'should' be jumping around in the light and not stuck down some hole in  
the ground...

and being a very kind turtle he takes pity on the poor frog, knowing from  
past experience that there's a much bigger/wider world that all frogs are  
part of...

but hey, maybe that frog is a suspicious and arrogant little frog,  
conceited in his beliefs, or just scared that the turtle maybe wants to  
eat him, or steal his home or whatever, the turtle, however, sees only a  
frog stuck in a hole and being forced to live a limited perception of  
life...

and, after talking to that frog and getting no response (except maybe rude  
ones) he sadly turns away thinking that maybe that little frog just wasn't  
ready to hear his message of freedom this time, the best he was able to do  
for him being to at least let that poor frog know that 'maybe' there's a  
much better/bigger world outside of his current home where he actually &  
naturally belongs, but doesn't realise it...

yet ;)