Bad with, worse without [WOTW]
In a place not so far from here, there was a beautiful forest with countless fruit trees, flowers and the most exotic plants you could imagine. The man had no access to this place. There, there was a hive, where the bees worked tirelessly to produce their honey and helping to pollinate the entire place.
A bee began to disagree with the rules imposed by the queen. She thought that governance system was unfair. She wanted to be free and with that created a great discord among the other bees in the hive. But, this bee knew how to be malicious in words and little by little was convincing one by one to change their thoughts and free themselves from the "oppressor queen".
Then, one fine day more than half of the hive "freed" and went away to be free, to live their lives without the rules of someone ordering them to work properly.
It didn't take long and all those bees that deserted died. All, no exceptions, including the one that created all the discord. The reason was just one: Their frailty in the outside world, being free but never taught to be truly free.
_Moral of the story: Having a government is bad. But not having one can be even worse if you're not ready to lead your people.
That was my participation in the WOTW promoted by @scholaris
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Ruim com, pior sem [WOTW]
Em um lugar não tão distante daqui, existia uma linda floresta com inúmeras árvores frutíferas, flores e as plantas mais exóticas que você pudesse imaginar. O homem não tinha acesso a esse lugar. Lá, existia uma colmeia, onde as abelhas trabalhavam incansavelmente para a produção de mel delas e ajudando a polinizar o local todo.
Uma abelha começou a discordar das regras impostas pela rainha. Ela achava injusto aquele sistema de governança. Ela queria ser livre e com isso criou uma grande discórdia entre as outras abelhas da colmeia. Mas, essa abelha sabia ser maliciosa nas palavras e pouco a pouco foi convencendo uma a uma a mudarem seus pensamentos e se libertarem da rainha "opressora".
Então, um belo dia mais da metade da colmeia se "libertou" e foi embora ser livre, viver a vida delas sem regras de alguém mandando como deveria ser para trabalhar.
Não demorou muito e todas essas abelhas que desertaram morreram. Todas, sem exceção de nenhuma, inclusive a que criou toda a discórdia. O motivo era apenas um: A fragilidade delas no mundo a fora, sendo livres mas nunca a ensinadas a serem livres de verdade.
Moral da história: Ter um governo é ruim. Mas não ter um, pode ser pior ainda se você não estiver pronto para liderar seu povo.
Essa foi minha participação no WOTW promovido pelo @scholaris
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Having a government is not in itself bad, although I would agree that an oppressive government is never good for the citizens of a country. To lead a revolution against autocracy is admirable, but it takes a good leader to front a successful revolution, such that there is something left after the fallout for the people to build upon. In your story, it would appear that a renegade revolutionary managed to manipulate the minds of the bee society against the queen (as you mention that he was malicious with his words and their is no evidence that the bee society was functioning in any way out of the norm). The lesson also therefore lies in ensuring that we are careful in life not to be distracted by the "noise" of disgruntled detractors and ensure that we challenge the integrity of these positions they have taken, before rushing blindly over the precipice after them.
It's an interesting story. Queen 2 felt Queen 1 was the oppressor but was she? I think Queen 2 was the oppressor. Instead of teaching her fellow bees about the freedom she sought her own interests and turned many bees away from Queen 1. The bees that blindly followed her paid for her greed with their lives.
Queen 1 must have been devastated, but we'll never know. Their frailty was a consequence of Queen 2's greed.
And government? Perhaps the government in this story was the one trying to rise upon the back of another (Queen 1).
This was pretty much my take on the situation.
For me, the story highlights the impact of freedom and how it can be a two-edged sword. One can be free from oppression but held captive by their flaws and shortcomings. The supposed queen 2 wanted her fellow bees to be free without offering some form of structure. Most of these bees have lived within the confines of the system created by the supposed oppressive queen and moving away from it proved challenging.
I probably would have preferred a different twist to the story. I do not believe freedom can be all damning. I believe people can try and thrive exposing new things, at least a few who exposure other alternatives and we should encourage that
For sure!
I didn't want to condemn freedom. In fact, I'm in favor of picking her up. But, seek wisely and have the idea that achieving your own freedom requires more effort and work than when you are stuck in the "system". That's why many people give up midway and go back to the same old
I'll take the opportunity to answer both.
The idea of the text is basically what you understand.
Creating and leading a revolt against a system is admirable. But to what extent is it really thought of in society as a whole and helps others and not just for self-interest? What's more, if you don't know how to drive, everything will either fail or be even worse.
In the example I wanted to use a bee not wanting to live the same as usual. Caught in the cultural system that it has always been. But I didn't know what the outside world was like beyond the rules and within a "working system." Convinced a few others and fate was the end of them.
But those who stayed, even with a few survived and re-eeged themselves, the state (government) continued, and even gained more strength with the example that happened. Since it's going to take a while for someone else to want to go out like this, because she's already seen the end that would be without a good plan.
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Lol reading your story has got me worried now.
I wrote something on the exact same lines.
Let's say great minds think alike.
I guarantee @wiseagent agrees with that hahaha
I will read yours soon xD
Thank you.. sorry for the late response.. waiting to hear what you have to say.
Don't worry about time. We each live in different places and with their tasks. I still couldn't sit down to read it all. I plan to do this today :)
Hello,
I would like to give you my feedback.
You used the stylistic device "the moral of the story". Moral stories are perfect for conveying a message, which for me means: know what you are doing before you do it.
For me, however, it is possible, if I expand the framework in which your story takes place, that those who longed for their freedom can die in it, not necessarily a drama - reality is that one cannot always know what he does, unless he is doing it.
Your stylistic device of the exaggeration "all have died, without exception" invites exactly to it, if one transfers your tale to us people, to be able to think that just not all will die. Some will live and recognize their mistakes within their possibilities and learn from them. They will in turn have an influence on others and so on.
The simple language of the moral story is for me an invitation to expand it in its depths and actually not to stop at a one-to-one comparison.
I invite you to read my submitted story as well and let me know what you think. I'm eager to hear it. Perhaps, without reading the comments? :)
Greetings to you.
Absolutely! I agree with your post of view.
My story was just to show one point. And not the whole issue involved. That's why in the end it says exactly what I meant "not always"
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Good thing is, I can search my mind for real life experiences, and I conclude that absolutes are rarely happening. For us humans it's impossible to step out of an existing system other than to be a true radical and drop out fully of society. Hermits or extreme survivalists serve us as interesting examples, even inspiring to change things without having to be extreme ourselves :)
The concerns of those who do not want to change anything about existing institutions or even vehemently oppose them and wage a campaign against critics or drop-outs are, in my opinion, exaggerated, sometimes even excessively so. They are afraid of something that is not a danger.