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In one of my trips to Oaxaca, Mexico, in the early 2000's, an acquaintance told me the following story.
A group of people from a remote hamlet were planning to build a road. A delegation converged on the mayor of town to solicit his help.
The mayor offered them a bulldozer and a few picks and shovels.
He also mentioned that he would send an engineer. At that point, the head of the delegation said:
"An engineer? What for? We haven't used one before."
The mayor explained that the engineer would help them to find where to put the road.
The head of the delegation answered promptly: "In the past, when we needed to build a road,
we just let a burro loose, and he would show us the best possible route."
Thus, the moral of the story: A burro's natural instinct
can work engineering wonders.
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