THE WRONG MASTER
About 600 B.C. Aesop told this fable: It seems the frogs in one pond wanted a leader. They were so determined that they complained night and day to the Greek god Zeus, nagging him for a leader. Finally, weary of their requests, Zeus threw a log into the pond, and for a while the frogs were happy with their new leader. Soon, however, they found they could jump up and down on their new leader and run all over him. He offered no resistance and no response. The log did not have any direction or purpose in his behavior, but just floated back and forth in the pond. This displeased the frogs and they began complaining again. They croaked about their dissatisfaction with their log leader, and said that this time they wanted strong leadership. After hearing all the nagging he could endure, Zeus again gave them a leader–this time it was a stork, who stood tall above the members of…
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