In the world of the ancient Greeks, agriculture were diverse and healthy and indigenous plants and insect colonies shared the same field. As a result, the fields of wheat and grapes were filled with a variety of vigorous, forward-looking, and well-spoken insects. the most industrious of these were the ant. All summer the ant worked in the hot sun, storing away grain and seeds in anticipation of a long winter.
In that same field lived a grasshopper whose life were very free from care. To him, the ideal existence was to enjoy nature in an unstructured and playfully exploratory manner. He often took advantage of this way of thinking by sleeping most of the day. At other times, he would sing joyfully in the meadow.
This attitude did not go unnoticed by the ant. Also the grasshopper mused himself just watching the ant working so hard. The grasshopper tried to keep his leisure-centric lifestyle attuned to the passing of the seasons.
But winter arrived early that year and the fields were quickly barren. The unfortunate grasshopper found himself a victim of the meteorological change. He went hopping about the field looking for sustenance of any kind, but nothing edible could be found.
Soon the grasshopper spotted the ant, lustily dragging a full cornstalk behind him. He walked over, intending to ask the ant to share a little of his immense hoard. But as soon as the ant caught sight of the grasshopper, the ant begun to scream for help. The grasshopper said to the ant that she had more than it possibly eat. But the ant responded negatively to him. The ant tried to make the grasshopper reasoned to his perspective about the free market that nature brings but bounded to the weather not all the time this free nature is accessible.
The ant and the grasshopper were interrupted in their fruitless debate by a huge mantis bigger than the two of them put together. The ant and the grasshopper were frightened by the nonsense-free aspect of his appearance. The praying mantis told the ant that he was auditing the personal production of the year.
The situation that the insect's hoard produced was appropriate to the mantis to suggest more community policies to the use of the field's production and the grasshopper, known for his unstructured way of life, was asked to organize a program for young insects, eager for cultural interchange with the same mentality as the grasshopper, to enjoy surfing in warmer climates.
