The Elephant in the Room

Once upon a time, there was an elephant in a room full of journalists.
These journalists were very stubborn, arrogant, and some were extremely elitist.

This elephant was a poor elephant
but had a knack for making accurate predictions about what was going to happen.

Often times, this elephant would try in vain to warn these journalists in the room - to help them.

And, occasionally, this elephant would even appear to be completely wrong at first
but would actually end up being completely correct - after a couple of months or years had passed.

Some of the journalists in power would actually make it a point to punish this elephant
for daring to speak the truth to them - in anyway they could.

And sometimes they would even steal his ideas while presenting them as their own.

Most of the other journalists would simply ignore this elephant altogether,
as if he wasn't there or simply didn't exist.

A few of the younger interns in this room, however, were quietly listening
and would secretly give this elephant a little food money so he wouldn't starve to death.

Finally the elephant decided to give up on trying to help these journalists anymore.
The room they were in was on fire, and was sure to burn down to the ground.

Before the elephant left the room with some of the younger interns
he tried once more to reason with the journalists to save their lives.

"You're all going to die unless you take my advice now," the elephant remarked,
"This room wouldn't have even caught fire if you had simply listened to my advice in the first place."

"Fuck you," replied one of the older journalists in charge
before promptly crossing his arms and turning around to face the opposite direction.

The elephant left the room as it burned with all it's occupants to the ground.

"Oh well," thought the elephant as he walked to the bar with the young interns, "At least I tried my best."

The elephant may not have had the journalists' respect or even enough money to pay his bills
but at least he had his life, his youth, and enough pocket change to buy a beer.