Wonder how you could rewrite the grasshopper and ant story to make the grasshopper the hero and the ant the villain 🤔
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Make the ant a Bernie Madoff figure who worked studiously to defraud his investors and steal all their money to prepare for the winter
Make the grasshopper a cultural icon whose only crime was posting his music online in a pay-what-you-want format
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the grasshopper unlearns what it was taught in an effort to not be taxed and controlled by the ants
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The grasshopper tried his best to spread joy in the world, but the selfish ant spent all his waking ours plotting to proclaim himself the winner when the time was right.
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Checkout zubaanbooks.com/shop/foxy-aeso Suniti Namjoshi takes that fable and pokes and prods it from multiple angles.
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Game of Thrones just told this story and even GRRM didn't subvert that moral lesson. Winter is always coming.
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It's built into the entomology.
Neither grasshoppers or worker ants would survive the winter, and while the ant is working for it's colony, grasshoppers don't work like that.
The story seemed to shame insects for being what they are. It's why it's beloved by religious cons.
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The obvious way to do it is to portrait the grasshopper as an "individual" and the ant as just one cog in the faceless borg that is the ant colony.
The *interesting* 2nd twist is to accept the above and ask, yeah, so what, what's so wrong about borgs and ant colonies?







