An old friend told me, the smaller the crumbs, the harder they are fought over. Scarcity mentality, and scarcity in actuality quite often. But the earth is not creating the scarcity, the people are.
Too a large extent this is a truism in affluent communities. When only stone soup is available scarcity simply is either not enough mossy stone or not enough water to make soup.
An old friend told me, the smaller the crumbs, the harder they are fought over. Scarcity mentality, and scarcity in actuality quite often. But the earth is not creating the scarcity, the people are.
Too a large extent this is a truism in affluent communities. When only stone soup is available scarcity simply is either not enough mossy stone or not enough water to make soup.
Simply another manufactured crisis, Gee I just realized we do produce a few things. But are we proud of the product?
No. On the other hand the money permits ignoring pride. Pride -after Falstaff is like honor.
PRINCE HENRY
Why, thou owest God a death.
Exit PRINCE HENRY
FALSTAFF
‘Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before
his day. What need I be so forward with him that
calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter; honour pricks
me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I
come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or
an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.
Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is
honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what
is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?
he that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no. ‘Tis insensible, then. Yea,
to the dead. But will it not live with the living?
no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore
I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so
ends my catechism.