Aesop's 2017

Subject: Aesop's 2017

It's like one of Aesop's fables trying to predict what 2017 will be like on both a personal level and world wide.
The famous fables were simple stories with a moral bottom line, ideal for putting the point across without labouring it. The underlying

basis for teaching especially,  children the essence of why and how we evaluate values, is to present a story, often using animals to reflect the human condition whilst at the same time separating the complexity of self identification. A tortoise and a hare, a mouse and the lion all share an improbable connection, but have in their assembled persona, a yin and a yang element which makes the story both unbelievable and at the same time believable.
How would a mouse convince a lion not to eat him and then repay the the obligation by chewing the rope to set the lion free. The essence in all of our lives of doing the right thing and then unexpectedly, receiving a bonus
Of course one of the biggest fables has been the European Union.
On the one hand recognised as a free trading block it attracted many nations who were attracted to such a large market place but it has morphed into something much more cloying, much more intrusive, much more corrosive as it seeks to federalise all the nations into an undemocratic single entity. The slight of hand practiced by the French and the Germans in their efforts to cement an artificial hegemony over what they saw as peripheral nations, the poor cousins who would go along with a little persuasion.
As the goodwill which is so necessary to convince other nations to seed power for the greater good begins to wear thin and the populations who lie under the weight of the twisted economic experiment begin to voice their displeasure, the lack of cohesion places enormous pressure on a already flawed political structure.
The damage done by successive administrations in America with financial deregulation has damaged world confidence in the banking system and with it Americas confidence to be the global backer of last resort. The end of liberalism and its commitment to equality (a misnomer if ever there was one) the insistence that there was such a thing as World values which could be understood everywhere has been shown to be absurd.
Donald Trump who will wind things back to the 30s and release a "dog eat dog" mentality which will destroy much of the economic stability, is a man of his time in so much as he has pricked the bubble of complacency, not so much amongst the rich but amongst the poor. Other than the vote, the poor have no leverage but if Trump wants a second term he has to make substantial inroads into his countries economic weakness vis a vis China and the Asian/South American/European comfort blanket of a soft dollar, recycled ad nauseam through the banks to prop up some economies which were unsustainable and others who are in for a free lunch.
What would Aesop have made of this dilemma and which animals to depict the crisis in confidence between the rich and the poor, the people from lands far away now drawn closer with arranged modes of travel, political duplicity, and industries that no longer pay homage to a local population or any attempt to justify the cost of production with any sort of moral justification.
Perhaps the Hydra (a many headed serpent) pitted against the Amoeba, the one representing the many faces of Capitalism the other the changing shape of a society it was meant to serve.