People have a lot of trouble. How to determine this condition? For example, a person runs back and forth, back and forth, and so on all day. About him, you can simply say: "Spins like a squirrel in a wheel." Today we will analyze whether it is good to be such a "squirrel".
Origin
Most of the stable expressions came to the language from oral folk sources. Others remained as a memory of some historical events, for example, the phrase "filkin deed." And phraseologism “like a protein in a wheel” is of literary origin.
I. A. Krylov and phraseologism (meaning)
The meaning of the expression is closely related to its literary source. Therefore, it is first worth recalling the plot of the fable.
Imagine a fair festival. Among other entertainments, they put up a squirrel in a wheel, it runs and runs, and everything in a circle. Drozd observes this entertaining picture and asks Squirrel, why does she do it? She replies that she serves with the great gentleman. In other words, she is very busy. Drozd looked and philosophically remarked: "It is clear to me that you are running - and everything is on the same window you are."
Naturally, Ivan Andreevich does not leave his fable without morality and says that it is dedicated to those people who seem very busy, but in fact do not move forward.
The fable “Squirrel in a Wheel” is rather offensive, we think the reader fully understood this.
When people compare themselves to Squirrel, what does this mean?
This indicates, first of all, that a person is either tired or understands the meaninglessness of all his work, but he has no way to get out of this “wheel”. The reasons may be different.
The paradox of the modern world is that the fable about the Squirrel as a description of the model of life is now suitable for many people. For example, current talk shows: after all, many viewers understand that this product is not of the highest class, and, nevertheless, the rating does not drop, and the programs collect the audience. Problems in such programs are discussed as the simplest and most common ones, but people still watch.
Now imagine how many people it takes to start one such program? And there is no doubt that the staff of the Jerry Springer program (an analogue of Malakhov’s programs) feel like small fluffy animals in a confined space. What is there to do? Someone needs such work.
The modern world turns a person into a "squirrel in a wheel"
On the one hand, our world is huge - corporations have seized power, on the other hand, the globe has become very small: now, thanks to the Internet and television, we can virtually move virtually anywhere in the world thanks to the Internet and television. These two achievements of civilization have an obvious drawback: a person has become a kind of ant that provides communication between people.
And at first glance, most of the human activity seems senseless and unnecessary. But this point of view is not entirely true. Yes, a person sitting in the office or answering calls does little to decide, but if everyone at least for a moment quits their unnecessary and not too pleasant job, then the corporations will collapse. But do not worry: people will not do this, because most people value their place very much.
The moral of the story is that our world is in great need of “squirrels,” because only they spin it. Now the moment has come in human history that "you have to run very fast to stay in place" - a quote from Lewis Carroll has long gone into the people and has become a world asset. And it is the best suited to describe the current state of affairs.
For the rest, we hope the reader understood: the comparison “like a protein in a wheel” had a negative value. But now the world is so huge, and there is so much to do for everyone that each of us is now a “squirrel”, and there’s nothing offensive about it. We can only accept our fate.