The Hidden Message Of The Hydra, As Relevant An Analogy Today As It Was In Antiquity?

[Colmc54]

Cut off one head only to find another growing in it's place. Take out Saddam and Bin Laden and you get IS, Assad and Czar Putin.

The earliest and the best analogy and prediction of our future history. Only now with every head we cut off more than one appears to regrow.

I guess it will be ever thus, only exponentially adjusted as above as our populations continue to rise and the finite resources of this planet start to deplete.

[Old_Geezer]

Isn't the solution just to keep cutting ?

[Jackdaw33]

The solution was to cauterise the wounds when the heads had been cut off.

[agchristie]

Yes, the sirens are wailing....

[Colmc54]

Not if the Hydra has nukes. But yes we should launch an invasion of Syria and analogously cut Assad's head off. As for Czar Putin his aircraft would be shot out of the sky in the first hour if he dared to obstruct it and his troops would get lost in the desert when the US made their GPS unavailable to them.

Maybe future president Trump will try it. But somewhere out there in the aftermath when we're all celebrating the 'new world' order, the Hydra will be about her business.

[stuey]

There is no hidden message: it is written in the sand.

[Colmc54]

So many of our legends through time suggest that we are and always will be simply too primitive to ever avoid extinction. Still there's billions of years of sunlight to come. Whoever comes next will possibly stand a chance having become aware that they were't the first to step up to the plate.