Who shook the jar? (Unknown)

    If you collect 100 black ants and 100 fire ants and put them in a glass jar, nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other. Red believes that black is the enemy, while black believes that red is the enemy, when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar.

    The same is true in society. Men vs. women. Black vs. white. Faith vs. science. Young vs. old. And so on. Before we fight each other, we must ask ourselves: who shook the jar? 

--Unknown       

Image source: http://serious-science.org/ant-wars-6652. Note: while ants do fight each other, there is not yet sufficient data available to confirm the details of this story, so we offer it up as a metaphor for human existence rather than as confirmed scientific fact.
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