La Cigale, The Grashopper, Jules Lefebvre, c. 1872.

A grasshopper that had spent it’s whole summer lounging on the beach, was almost dying with hunger when winter came.  So the grasshopper went to some nearby ants, and asked them for some of the food they had stored up, by working hard all summer.  “What did you do all summer?” they asked.  “Well I spent most of it hitting bitches and hoes and getting wasted, except for a few weeks I was in jail.” “Oh you did,” they said, “well now you can go clubbing”.  Then the grasshopper got mad.  It wasn’t fair that he couldn’t get any food. “Doesn’t everyone deserve food?”  So he started a philosophy glorifying the strife of the grasshoppers as caused by ant oppression. He changed his name to Jesse J. Locust and he continued his begging and immoral lifestyle while the movement for the ‘emancipation’ of the grasshoppers grew.  Though most of the grasshoppers were in jail, eventually one of them was elected president.  Then one day an ant shot a grasshopper while he was trying to steal some of his catnip.  This made the grasshoppers very angry.  Jesse flew in with his swarm and the grasshopper mobs started destroying everything.  The ant who killed the grasshopper was not charged and the swarms escalated.  But then it got cold and they went home. No one learned anything and the hard work of the ants and even some grasshopper converts, was destroyed all the more.

Provide today for tomorrow, in philosophy and food.