Two fishes were swimming when they saw a
piece of meat dangling before them. The
younger fish darted toward it with an open
mouth. The older fish cried out, “Stop! You
can’t see it, but there is a hook inside that
meat. It is connected by an invisible line to a
pole outside the water. There is a man holding
the pole. If you eat the meat, the hook will
catch in your jaw and the man will pull you
out of the water. He will cut you open with a
knife, roast you on a fire and eat you. Then he
will throw your remains to his cat.”The young
fish stopped. The two of them swam away.
But when the young fish was alone, he
thought to himself, “Let me investigate for
myself how accurate these claims are.”He
went back to the meat, swam around it, above
and below it. He swam as far as he could in
widening circles around the meat. After a long
search, he said to himself, “I’ve looked far and
wide, and I haven’t found any sign of a man, a
pole, a knife, a fire or a cat. In fact, I’ve found
no trace of anything outside this water we live
in.”He went back to the meat and ate it. The
hook caught in his jaw, he felt himself being
yanked out of the water. He saw a pole, a
man and a knife, but at that point knowledge
was useless!
