10-17-2021, 09:42 AM
DON’T WAIT FOR THE CAVALRY…
Once upon a time there was a town that lay outside the castle walls…
The people of the town were obedient…
They tilled the fields - paid their taxes - and abided by the king’s decrees…
In return the king protected the townsfolk from invaders…
Often by sending his cavalry to send the invaders packing…
Everything was as it should be.
Then one day some medicine men came to town…
They talked about a magic cure for the seasonal sniffles…
The trusting townsfolk took the cure but soon starting falling sick and worse…
By this time the medicine men had set up shop all around the town…
The townsfolk asked the king to send his cavalry to send the medicine men packing…
But what the townsfolk didn’t know was that the king had sent the medicine men so that he could rule harder over a town weakened by the ‘cure’…
So the king hummed and hawed and made many excuses…
With every excuse a townsman or woman got very sick…
Sicker than the normal seasonal sniffles…
After many excuses from the king and after many townsfolk fell terribly ill…
The people of the town declared…
“IF THE KING WILL NOT SEND HIS CAVALRY - WE WILL RAISE OUR OWN !!!”
So they did…
And they ran the medicine men out of town…
The townsfolk stopped getting sick…
And the king was forever more fearful of the townsfolk because now he knew they were formidable.
And the townsfolk lived happily ever after.
The moral of the tale ?
When the king sends his medicine men… he will not send his cavalry…
But when the people raise their own cavalry… they win.
Once upon a time there was a town that lay outside the castle walls…
The people of the town were obedient…
They tilled the fields - paid their taxes - and abided by the king’s decrees…
In return the king protected the townsfolk from invaders…
Often by sending his cavalry to send the invaders packing…
Everything was as it should be.
Then one day some medicine men came to town…
They talked about a magic cure for the seasonal sniffles…
The trusting townsfolk took the cure but soon starting falling sick and worse…
By this time the medicine men had set up shop all around the town…
The townsfolk asked the king to send his cavalry to send the medicine men packing…
But what the townsfolk didn’t know was that the king had sent the medicine men so that he could rule harder over a town weakened by the ‘cure’…
So the king hummed and hawed and made many excuses…
With every excuse a townsman or woman got very sick…
Sicker than the normal seasonal sniffles…
After many excuses from the king and after many townsfolk fell terribly ill…
The people of the town declared…
“IF THE KING WILL NOT SEND HIS CAVALRY - WE WILL RAISE OUR OWN !!!”
So they did…
And they ran the medicine men out of town…
The townsfolk stopped getting sick…
And the king was forever more fearful of the townsfolk because now he knew they were formidable.
And the townsfolk lived happily ever after.
The moral of the tale ?
When the king sends his medicine men… he will not send his cavalry…
But when the people raise their own cavalry… they win.