The idea is famously illustrated in one of Aesop’s Fables, often called “The Old Man and His Sons” or “The Bundle of Sticks.” In the story, an old man demonstrates to his sons that while a single stick can be easily broken, a bundle of sticks bound together cannot, teaching them the importance of unity.
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Yes, that’s the one.
Another great illusion is that a single individual is a bunch of sticks/sock puppets.
Anywhayz.
What if the older brother(s), Ishmael/Esau/Jacob’s other sons, and the younger brother(s), Isaac/Jacob/Joseph, had a common enemy: the new king of “Egypt”, who didn’t know them the way the earlier king knew Joseph and his brothers?
If every “slave” tends their own gardens, what happens then?
The ones who don’t tend, have nothing to eat, whereas the ones who do… but give freely to those who ask… are the new masters.
¿intiendes?
…and then comes the harvest.
Or you could just sow the wind.