The Fox knows he's being facetious, of course. He's purposefully deceiving himself- he knows that he is incapable of reaching the grapes- so instead of obsessing, he Wills himself (in a petty manner) to forget. Good!
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true, and that comes across fairly well. maybe it's not Aesop who's the asshole, it's the culture that deploys the fable toward shaming the behavior. he did pick the fox for the role after all
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To be on the same page, it's cognitive dissonance. It's practically brain-washing yourself. Consider an alternative, if the fox hadn't given up and gone through the cognitive process immediately, he might have thought about a way to reach those "sour" grapes
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Aesop was just trying to tell us to not deceive ourselves if we can't get something, just face the truth. Though the tension is hard to sustain, so we all go through the process countless times in our life.
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