AESOP’S FABLE

 In her relatively brief existence America has benefited the world with her wealth as no other people that came before her.  Now many nations which have gratefully received her aid would repeat the folly of the couple from Aesop’s fable and “gut the Goose to get the gold.”  Worse still, some under the very cover of her wings, by likewise taking all and returning nothing, would effectively compromise her health for a bigger share of the egg. 

 And, if this were not enough to be concerned with, we also have among us those of righteous but deluded intent, who, in the name of “egg for everybody” would “fundamentally change” the Goose.  Apparently, these do not understand that if we change the Goose, we change the egg, or, worse yet, she may just stop laying altogether, in which case there will be a lot of goslings to feed without the gold the Goose provides.

 There are those that come from places near and far just to get a share of the golden egg, all the while demanding that our Goose alter her life to resemble the Goose they left behind.  If the Goose we left behind could lay the egg we want, what are we doing here?  Can we not understand that it is the Goose as she was that produced what we have been enjoying?  Rather than changing her to “the way we did it back home,” why not just go back home?

 But then there are those of religious persuasion who fully understand that to gut the Goose is to forfeit the egg.  Neither does their pretentious ambition to provide egg for everybody hold any hint of reality.  These would control what goes into the gut of the Goose and pen her for “higher” purposes.  Having been from a hatchling on a regular diet of Bible Christianity and enjoying the free-range liberty that accompanies its practice until about mid twentieth century, the Goose faithfully laid its daily egg of ever-increasing size.  Since then, her diet has been gradually changed to become a mixed feed of innocuous Churchianity, religious tradition and pure paganism.  And, wouldn’t you know the unexpected but very real result?  The Goose is growing too weak to leave the pen.  And, when on occasion she does lay, the egg we are all after is of lesser quality and is much smaller, for not only is the Goose what she eats, but so also is her egg.   

 Conclusion?  The same as the moral of Aesop’s famed fable: By none of these means or any other “gut the Goose” or for any reason “change the Goose” lest you be without any gold at all. 

 Written by

Bobby Norton

October 25, 2010