The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38959   Message #551398
Posted By: CarolC
16-Sep-01 - 04:10 AM
Thread Name: Media Blitz, Terrorist victory
Subject: RE: Media Blitz, Terrorist victory
It's not actually over yet. So, no, so far it would probably be safe to say that there hasn't been a victor.

This is how I'm looking at it. It helps me if I look at difficult situations like this one in this way...

Rudyard Kipling, in the Just So Story 'Old Man Kangaroo', writes about how Old Man Kangaroo is tired of looking like an ordinary, nondescript, sort of rat-like animal. He tells a succession of gods that he wants to be "different from all other animals and very truly sought after, by five o'clock".

The first two gods tell him to go away. The third god sets Yellow Dog Dingo after him. Yellow Dog Dingo chases Old Man Kangaroo all over the world. As Old Man Kangaroo runs and runs, his legs get longer and stronger and his feet get bigger, and he starts jumping higher and higher and his tail grows longer to help him balance when he jumps. And in this way, Kangaroo becomes able to jump over rivers and other obstacles in order to get away from Dingo.

Eventually, most of the day has passed and Kangaroo is completely unrecognizable from the animal he was when he made the request of the god. And poor Dingo is pretty tired and hungry, but he hasn't caught Kangaroo.

Kangaroo and Dingo both complain to the god about what has happened. Kangaroo complains about all of the changes that have happened to him and asks the god why he set Dingo on him in the first place.

The god says, "Well you said you wanted to be different from all other animals, and very truly sought after, and it is five o'clock.

Looks like we've got Yellow Dog Dingo after us right now, and if we want to, maybe we can let this experience make us better than we were before.