Grapes are Always Sour for the Other 98%? A Tale Told by a Fox
Grapes are Always Sour for the Other 98%? A Tale Told by a Fox Posted on 17th February, 2026 (GMT 02:05 hrs) # In Place of an Abstract # I, the fox—displaced, hungry, forever circling the perimeter of what others call success—have written this howl from the ashes of vanished forests and the margins of a city that builds towers while drowning its poor. Through five chapters filled with nearly endangered political satire, I trace how the grapes of sweetness remain forever sour, not from any defect in my leap, but because the vineyard itself is enclosed by design: fortified mansions rising above flood-prone shores, weddings costing hundreds of millions while hunger indices stay serious, births secured with foreign passports and luxury medicine while preaching national self-reliance to the rest, nationalism demanded as sacrifice from the many yet practiced as portable privilege by the chosen few, and finally an economics of limitless spectacle that devours the very e...