On 12/13/15, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 12/13/2015 11:01 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 03:20:15PM +0000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
For those who have not yet read of this, it's a must to comprehend. Lest ye doubt humans are rightly labelled 'sheep'.
Call me a crank, but I am against the sheeple.
Sheeple are major cause of trouble, electing current so called "establishment".
When I see or hear the word 'sheeple' I think about how successful our adversaries have been in dividing the people they prey on into mutually hostile factions, each of which blames the actions of their common enemy on the others.
I agree that the wording I chose for the subject could be seen as divisive, yet is confronting since it suggests a specific target, which target turns out to be "most people/sheeple". The divisive part is not good, but also not intended. The "we need to be alert to reality - this is big/bad" is intended and I think is essential to assessing anything sane. I recall reading that Wikipedia article a few years ago, yet it had no less impact upon me, on my second reading.
Populist and reformist politics ends and mindless compliance begins when people decide that they are categorically superior to those who don't happen to belong to their own gang, and start speaking and acting on that basis.
No, not the compliance bit at least. Just because I speak arrogantly, refused to wear a school uniform for -years- in a row and use vehemence and confronting language when I communicate, does NOT mean I am the cause of those "sheeple" who be compliance with mindless authority! You can't be seriously suggesting as much, surely. In fact "sheep" is about as apt as it gets when describing compliant (to arbitrary authority) people. And the Migram experiments show that humans by an overwhelming majority, are in fact sheep, even in the face of their own stress, their own tears, inner conflict, emotional pain - they -still- fucking comply with arbitrary (worse, despotic!!) authority! "We humans" are so woefully inadequate to the task of complying with our own conscience or inner sense of right and wrong, and so woefully tied to compliance with external authority, it is shocking, embarrassing, upsetting and yes, confronting. But fuck, don't shoot the messenger! Put your confronting reaction to something constructive - try to figure out how to simply and expediently educate those you come across to counter this problem - if you have actual successes, please share those, as that may go some significant way to enlightening us all on how to handle this very confronting problem. Another shot to prod you along a bit further: Those who are compliant with despotic external authority in the face of their own inner conscience of right and wrong, ought be regarded as other/ outer/ "them", and treated with extreme caution! "Those" sheep happens to be about 60% to 90% of everyone! You wanna sweep -that- under the carpet of your politically correct boat? Regards, Zenaan