Bill Moyers:
Why a media anyway?
I’m going to let an old Cherokee chief answer that.
I heard this story a long time ago, growing up in Choctaw County in Oklahoma before we moved to Texas, of the tribal elder who was telling his grandson about the battle the old man was waging within himself.
He said, "It is between two wolves, my son. One is an evil wolf: anger, envy, sorrow, greed, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is the good wolf: joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”
The boy took this in for a few minutes and then said to his father—to his grandfather, “Which wolf won?”
The old Cherokee replied simply, “The one I feed.”
Democracy is this way. The wolf that wins is the one we feed.
(... and media provides the bait.)
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Woven Music Lura Astor assemblage
