I swear, whoever it was that came up with the "don't be a Sheeple" bumpersticker was a marketing genius. Because, you see... people of every political stripe are gonna buy the thing.. all convinced it applies to somebody else.
Once, several months ago, I was talking with an old ex-hippie friend of mine.. she was a heavy protester of the VietNam war, and you know how she referred to the ROTC folks who actually had the gumption to put their lives on the line in the military....
"They were hollowly mouthing what they were told.. they were programmed."
She couldn't believe that THEY believed, heart and soul, after due soul-searching and self examination, the principles they were willing to risk their lives for. She couldn't understand their beliefs, and so she was convinced that they were brainwashed.
In other words.. that they were "sheeple."
Never studied international economics and the vagaries of The Evil Coporation?
You're somebody else's Sheeple. (Sing it, WyldOne
)
Belong to an organized faith, particularly a conservative Judeo-Christian church?
You're somebody else's Sheeple.
God forbid you're also a vet.. double "Sheeple" points to the other side).
And of course, where this becomes relevent to our discussion... think a gun will keep you safe, when odds are virtually every TFLer will die from more far mundane causes than "SHTF" battles in the streets?
Why, then you're DEFINATELY a Sheeple, just working your life away to line the pockets of the evil Gaston, and his cronies Smith and Wesson.
I suppose what it all comes down to is.. what makes a "Sheeple?"
Is it a matter of not studying the full implications of an issue, as the "undecideds" on the gun issue are? If so... we're certainly all someone's Sheeple, 'cause there's simply too many issues in the world to be totally conversant on, and still work for a living.
Is it a matter of disagreeing with a particular philosophy? In which case, are we less Sheep for rabidly clinging to a dogma.. ANY dogma, than another is for rejecting it?
Or is it simply that our philosophies -- of liberty-minded individualism, and "socially conscious" collectivism -- are so radically different, so totally incompatible in basic assumptions of human nature, natural law, and ethics, that each "house" looks no more than a "brainwashing station for useful idiots" from the outside?
-K
Once, several months ago, I was talking with an old ex-hippie friend of mine.. she was a heavy protester of the VietNam war, and you know how she referred to the ROTC folks who actually had the gumption to put their lives on the line in the military....
"They were hollowly mouthing what they were told.. they were programmed."
She couldn't believe that THEY believed, heart and soul, after due soul-searching and self examination, the principles they were willing to risk their lives for. She couldn't understand their beliefs, and so she was convinced that they were brainwashed.
In other words.. that they were "sheeple."
Never studied international economics and the vagaries of The Evil Coporation?
You're somebody else's Sheeple. (Sing it, WyldOne
)Belong to an organized faith, particularly a conservative Judeo-Christian church?
You're somebody else's Sheeple.
God forbid you're also a vet.. double "Sheeple" points to the other side).
And of course, where this becomes relevent to our discussion... think a gun will keep you safe, when odds are virtually every TFLer will die from more far mundane causes than "SHTF" battles in the streets?
Why, then you're DEFINATELY a Sheeple, just working your life away to line the pockets of the evil Gaston, and his cronies Smith and Wesson.
I suppose what it all comes down to is.. what makes a "Sheeple?"
Is it a matter of not studying the full implications of an issue, as the "undecideds" on the gun issue are? If so... we're certainly all someone's Sheeple, 'cause there's simply too many issues in the world to be totally conversant on, and still work for a living.
Is it a matter of disagreeing with a particular philosophy? In which case, are we less Sheep for rabidly clinging to a dogma.. ANY dogma, than another is for rejecting it?
Or is it simply that our philosophies -- of liberty-minded individualism, and "socially conscious" collectivism -- are so radically different, so totally incompatible in basic assumptions of human nature, natural law, and ethics, that each "house" looks no more than a "brainwashing station for useful idiots" from the outside?
-K