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The idiot Beaver
Dear Editor,
Do you do any volunteer work for your home town?
Have you offered to work on a project or made yourself available as a laborer to decrease costs for your town? Have you, or do you presently, serve on a city sub-board wherein you labor for a cause or community effort?
As I see it, there are only two possible reasons why you do any of the above. One; either you are public spirited, or two; you seek self-glorification.
One must admire you if you only do it from a sense of filling a need and don't seek plaudits and praise. If you do it because you seek, and think you need, glory and recognition, please step aside and quit being a pain in the posterior to everyone around you.
Everyone in town knows which one you are. You're always making waves, drawing attention to your surly and longstanding effort to bring attention upon yourself. People soon become sick and tired of you and your self-serving noise.
You remind me of an idiot beaver in a swift-flowing creek. The idiot Beaver gnaws down a tree along the bank, chews away the limbs, wrestles the trunk into the creek where he/she attempts to push the log upstream from the downstream end. That near-impossible task confuses and demoralizes the intelligent Beavers, creates a lot of splashing and noise which only gets in the way of true progress.
The silly idiot Beaver thinks she/he is the major Beaver player in the little creek.
Their continual "Look what I did," wears thin in a short time, resulting in the other Beavers wishing the idiot Beaver would go away so they could get more done.
There could be reasons the idiot Beaver won't go away. They may feel they've been "Grandfathered" in to their position, or they might think they are a perpetuation of a fine tradition, or perhaps a streamside Beaver who lacks brains applauds all the idiot Beaver does.
(Yes, there seems to always be more than one idiot Beaver.)
No matter the reason, the idiot Beaver has a rock solid concept of his/her importance and cannot admit they are a road block. Being a roadblock and being a dam are two distinctly different critters.
A roadblock is in the way of advancements whereas a dam avoids destruction and chaos.
I point no fingers, name no names. I don't need to. Everyone in town knows who the idiot Beaver is. Furthermore, I think the idiot Beaver knows who and what they are. But, I might be wrong. After all, you are only an idiot Beaver.
Writer Ray
Palisade