Addenda aren't a recommended way of making thoughts complete. They (like their relatives the postscripts) indicate the need to say, "Oh! Shoot, I forget to say (or add) that...." A need for an addendum might indicate a shortcoming in planning the main body of an essay or letter. Anyway, here's proof that I didn't fully complete the thought of the previous blog.
There's an interesting parallel between government officials and their constituents and coral polyps and algae. Corals live symbiotically with zooxanthellae (algae). The zooxanthellae provide food for the polyps while the polyps give the algae a place to live. So, algae are important to the polyps. But not all algae are important. Those algae that blanket a coral reef actually kill by smothering (not in the sense of covering a victim's mouth and nose with a pillow as in the movies). One can think of the analog I'm drawing by labeling constituents as polyps and officials as the two kinds of algae, those necessary for the survival of individuals in a society and those that choke off the individualism of those constituents. 'Nough said. Addendum over.
There's an interesting parallel between government officials and their constituents and coral polyps and algae. Corals live symbiotically with zooxanthellae (algae). The zooxanthellae provide food for the polyps while the polyps give the algae a place to live. So, algae are important to the polyps. But not all algae are important. Those algae that blanket a coral reef actually kill by smothering (not in the sense of covering a victim's mouth and nose with a pillow as in the movies). One can think of the analog I'm drawing by labeling constituents as polyps and officials as the two kinds of algae, those necessary for the survival of individuals in a society and those that choke off the individualism of those constituents. 'Nough said. Addendum over.
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