EXPLAINING OUR WORLD: How anti-governmental or anti-authoritarian movements (like Tea Party) begin!

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My mother recently sent me this series of drawing illustrating the negative sides of institutions--both private institutions and public ones. Please review this link for the FABLE OF THE ANT in pictures at this site.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24441088/Every-Day-A-Small-Ant-Arrives-at-Work-Very-Early

Since I recently have had a monumental set of struggles with the KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, involving renewal of my teaching license, and the ever-growing administration at one of America's top universities (The University of Kansas), I have to recognize that the growth of non-teaching, non-learning administrators and advisers at such institutions are detrimental to Higher education and Kansas education in general.

Please read or reread the fable of the ant below, reflect on it, and pass it on with your thoughts to others.

FABLE OF THE ANT

Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately.

She produces a lot and she was happy.

The Chief, a lion, was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision.

He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn't she produce even more if she

had a supervisor! So he recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports.

The cockroach's first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and "" he recruited a spider, who managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.

The lion was delighted with the cockroach's reports and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyze trends, so that he could use them for presentations at Board"s meetings.

So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and " " recruited a fly to manage the IT department.

The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time"!

The lion came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department

where the ant worked. The position was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an ergonomic chair for his office. The new person in charge, the cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant ,who he brought from his previous department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control Strategic Optimisation Plan "

The Department where the ant works is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset"

It was at that time that the cicada convinced the boss , the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment .

Having reviewed the charges for running the ant's department , the lion found out that the production was much less than before .

So he recruited the owl , a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.

The owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report , in several volumes,

that concluded :" The department is overstaffed ""

Guess who the lion fires first?

The ant , of course, because she

"showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude".

MORAL: ????

Write down what you think the moral is below in comment section, please.