Aesop & Son

. . . Aesop and Son explores the Heartbreak of Gluttony. Eating disorders of the Thin & Famous always have gotten bigger press than the Problems of Pudgy Private People. Representing the latter group, the hare follows in the footsteps of many sad lads. They grow up eating like horses, with nothing sticking to their bones. Then one day they meet a German cook and\or Home Economics major, and suddenly they cannot see their own feet when they're standing up. In this film, the tortoise stands in for the Prussian chef. The hare is depicted as the doomed former fast flier. After sampling the tortoise's trough, his running days are over.

. . . declared "Seeing is believing." This is what's known as the Splitting the Difference School of Philosophy. In other words, if a writer pompously declares that he believes every position in an argument or debate--including such polar opposite stances as presented above--to be factual, he has faith that such lazy, faulty reasoning leaves him in a no-lose position. As continually exposed in this AESOP & SON series, the goal of such posers as Aesop is to turn every discussion into a draw, like an endless world chess championship tournament. Though the specific sophomoric example highlighted here is from Aesop's Fable of THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, each of the other over-rated fables contain similar lapses in judgment. Fortunately, Aesop lived prior to the age of American television and social media. Otherwise, this joker would be a leading candidate for the U. S. Presidency Today.