Fascism

[go west young man]

There was a wild animal that could never be caught. It was too smart for the trappers. Too clever for the hunters. A collector wanted to capture it. So he hired the best hunter money could buy.

The collector asked the hunter what he would need.

The hunter turned to the collector and said one word: "Time." So he gave him a year.

The hunter went to the animal's roaming area and left some food there. He came back and saw that it was not touched. The next night he did the same. And once again it was not touched. The animal was very suspicious. After a few weeks of this, finally the animal took the food. There was no trap. The animal began to let down its guard and ate each night from that spot where the hunter left the food.

After a month of this the hunter put a railing near the food. The animal sniffed around that night and did NOT eat the food. But every night the same food was delivered and eventually the animal went back to eating it.

Bit by bit the hunter built railings and fence posts. Every time the animal got suspicious, the hunter would stop building - but continue to leave the food. After some months, and with nothing much happening as a consequence, the animal had stopped hunting altogether and became reliant on the hunter's food drop-offs.

As the hunter built the fence around the food drop-off site, the openings had become smaller and smaller until there was only one opening left (about 2 feet wide). But the animal was clever enough to find it. Eventually the gap was only wide enough for the animal top squeeze thru.

One night, the animal crept through the fence and sauntered toward the food. Behind it it could hear a strange sound. That was the sound of the gap being closed up.