Once a spider built a beautiful web in an old house. He kept it nice and clean and shiny so that flies would patronize it. The minute he got a "
customer" he would clean it up so the other flies would not get suspicious. Then one day this fairly intelligent fly came buzzing by the clean spider web. Old man spider called out,
"Come in and sit." But the fairly intelligent fly said,
"No sir, I don't see other flies in your house, and I am not going in alone!" But presently he saw on the floor below a large crowd of flies dancing around on a piece of brown paper. He was delighted! He was not afraid if lots of flies were doing it. So he came in for a landing. But just before he landed, a bee zoomed by saying,
"Don't land there, stupid! That's flypaper!" But the fairly intelligent fly shouted back,
"Don't be silly. Those flies are dancing. There's a big crowd there. Everybody's doing it. That many flies can't be wrong!" So he came in for a landing, flapped down and his feet set. He was sure that he was safe doing what so many other flies were doing. So he landed-and he got stuck! He wanted to be with the crowd more than anything else. But he was only fairly intelligent...or hardly that!
It describes people, too, doesn't it? Some of us want to be with the crowd so desperately that we end up in a mess. What does it profit a fly (or a person) if he escapes the spider web only to end up on the flypaper?
