Does anyone else feel like we're watching the stage production of Aesop's lost fables?
This one takes place in a large and beautiful village. It has more than its fair share of village idiots, most of whom work in the news media.
In the distant past the biggest tribe had treated the one of the smaller tribes very badly. That was a long time ago, and the laws of the land now not only prevented such abuse, as a means of repentance the laws granted favorable status to the smaller tribes.
In fact the villagers even selected a member of the small tribe to be their leader.
This village had a long history of speaking out when they objected to their leaders' decisions. Then the people that didn't like the policy and those that did would have vigorous debates.
It was during one of those debates that the supporters of the leader became very desperate because they were losing the debate, because they were stupid poo-poo heads.
They decided to start saying that any of the good townsfolk that happened to be from the big tribe only disliked the leader's idea because he was from the little tribe. They knew this wasn't true but hoped to make the good townsfolk be quiet so they wouldn't be called tribists. And it always got the attention of the village idiots in the press. This strategy had worked in the past.
It had worked too often in the past, and this time it was obvious to everyone that it was just a strategy. The good townsfolk kept debating and eventually won. All the village was so tired of the strategy that nobody would pay attention to real tribism. So their strategy backfired on them. People of the village decided it would be easier to stop selecting people from the little tribe to be leaders so that the debates could stay on the issues. All the village thought this was a shame. The stupid poo-poo heads and village idiots had ruined it for everyone.
(Some villagers were reminded by this of a shepard boy in their village that liked to yell "wolf".)
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