… The Importance of Tortoise Wisdom and Relating It To Governance and Politics.
By Charles Edet
This is a fable like a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, as explicitly encapsulated in a maxim.
The story you are about to read touched on leadership, trust, sychophancy, conciouness, fear captured in insecurity and the wisdom of one man that said the rest of the animals.
In Nigeria, several lions have ascended the thrown, and acted and led with gross betrayal of the people’s trust, some came by gun, have been under the cage of a previous leadership and by dint of opportunity created by coup, they ascended the throne caging others and devoting and plundering the nation.
Politics created another window for the entrance of caged politicians, who for long were denied the right to lead through democratic elections.
Politicians came, and like hungry lions they plunged in the common wealth on the nation and exposed the people into diverse risks, not caring.
Socially, economically and security wise, the entire nation got engulfed in fear, people die in Hundred on weekly basis, catastrophes of unprintable manner manifesting on daily basis , left and right.
Unfolding events in our country have naturally caged both the leadership and the political class, necessitating the invention of the tortoise wisdom in the fable of the the lion and the sheep.
Respectfully served below is the fable for your reading pleasure:
A lesson in a story of a real lifelong-time ago in the Animal Kingdom, a sheep was passing and saw a lion crying inside a cage trapped and the lion begged the sheep to save him with a promise not to kill and eat it but the sheep refused. After much persuasion and for the sheep’s gullibility it opened the cage for the lion.
Now the lion was very hungry having stayed in the cage for days without food. It quickly grabbed the sheep to kill and eat but the sheep reminded him of his promise. They were still there arguing when other animals came passing and they sought to know what happened. Both the lion and the sheep narrated their own side of the story but because of fear and in trying to gain Favour in the sight of the lion, all the animals took side with the lion except the Tortoise who claim not to understand the whole scenario.
Now the Tortoise asked the lion to show them where he was before the sheep rescued him, he pointed at the cage. He asked again, “were you inside or outside when the sheep arrived”? The lion said he was inside. The tortoise again said, “ok, enter let’s see how difficult it could be inside”. The lion entered and the tortoise locked him back inside.
In amazement, the other animals asked tortoise “why” and he replied “if we allow him to eat the sheep today, he will still go hungry tomorrow and we don’t know the next amongst us to be eaten tomorrow.
The Moral of this tale
*Don’t support evil today because it doesn’t affect you directly, tomorrow it could be your turn.
Good morning Everyone.. Enjoy your weekend..
Long-time ago in the Animal Kingdom, a sheep was passing and saw a lion crying inside a cage trapped and the lion begged the sheep to save him with a promise not to kill and eat it but the sheep refused. After much persuasion and for the sheep’s gullibility it opened the cage for the lion.
Now the lion was very hungry having stayed in the cage for days without food. It quickly grabbed the sheep to kill and eat but the sheep reminded him of his promise. They were still there arguing when other animals came passing and they sought to know what happened. Both the lion and the sheep narrated their own side of the story but because of fear and in trying to gain Favour in the sight of the lion, all the animals took side with the lion except the Tortoise who claim not to understand the whole scenario.
Now the Tortoise asked the lion to show them where he was before the sheep rescued him, he pointed at the cage. He asked again, “were you inside or outside when the sheep arrived”? The lion said he was inside. The tortoise again said, “ok, enter let’s see how difficult it could be inside”. The lion entered and the tortoise locked him back inside.
In amazement, the other animals asked tortoise “why” and he replied “if we allow him to eat the sheep today, he will still go hungry tomorrow and we don’t know the next amongst us to be eaten tomorrow.
The Moral of this tale
Don’t support evil today because it doesn’t affect you directly, tomorrow it could be your turn.
