SmokinLowriderSS
07-12-2007, 04:06 PM
He's actually kinda accurate, remotely, and only by the tiniest fortune of luck by the way blown wants to use the term "sheeple, but that is exactly the aimal MOST human beings are comparable to. Blown tries to be insulting with it, but, as usual, fails miserably.
Here it is.
Due to a few statistics, since we are currently in just about the most dangerous time in America (not meaning a thing to do with Islamic fascist Terrorism, just daily life).
The murder rate in America is about 6 per 100,000 people per year.
The aggravated assault rate is 4 per 1,000 per year.
This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
Sheep has not a single negative conotation in this.
Now, people, by behavior, can be classed into 3 different animals, very easily. One you have just seen. The vast majority, the harmless, also quite defenceless, sheep.
Then, there are the Wolves.
However, those that have a capacity for violence and no empathy towards their fellow citizens, and can justify killing people just for existing differently than they do are aggressive sociopaths, or in the case of this analogy.....wolves.
The wolves feed on the sheep without mercy. The wolves devour what they wish, take what they want, beacuse the only defence the sheep have is to huddle together in a big group, and HOPE the wolves change their mind.
There are wolves in this world, evil people, who want only to have, and just beacause it is yours (to include your very life) means nothing to the wolves. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep.
There is no safety in denial.
There is a third animal, feared by both.
Hated by the wolf because it stands in the wolf's path of destruction, willing to fight the rightous battle, even against superior odds, for no reward other than the protection of the flock.
Hated by the sheep because, in the absence of a true wolf, it looks like a wolf, and is thuis scary, and is not a sheep, but, as soon as a wolf appears, the sheep run to cower behind their protector, for it is the only defence they have.
The sheepdog.
The sheepdog would love nothing better than to nap lazily in the sun atop a hill, completely oblivious to the sheep. The sheepdog doesn't really care about the sheep personally, but his life's drive is to protect those who fear even him.
Sheepdogs have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for the flock, they are the protectors, the warriors. They can walk into the heart of darkness and face the wolf, while others run in fact they live for it, it makes them feel alive and fulfilled.
We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools. But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid's school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours. Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports, in camouflage fatigues, holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa." Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day.
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't on one of those planes."
The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, "Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference."
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.
Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up. Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn't bring your gun, you didn't train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear, helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from "sheephood" and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
Sheep, Sheepdogs, Wolves. We all know them. We all belong somewhere in there among them, some closer to the core animal, others on the fringe, nudged arround by life's events.
It's up to you where you stand on a daily basis.
blown's right, there's an awful lot of sheep in this world. They just aren't the "sheep" he thinks they are with his head burried so far in the sands of denial that he can only see the IMAGINARY wolves, and thinks that everyone not with him in the sand are the sheep.
Here it is.
Due to a few statistics, since we are currently in just about the most dangerous time in America (not meaning a thing to do with Islamic fascist Terrorism, just daily life).
The murder rate in America is about 6 per 100,000 people per year.
The aggravated assault rate is 4 per 1,000 per year.
This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
Sheep has not a single negative conotation in this.
Now, people, by behavior, can be classed into 3 different animals, very easily. One you have just seen. The vast majority, the harmless, also quite defenceless, sheep.
Then, there are the Wolves.
However, those that have a capacity for violence and no empathy towards their fellow citizens, and can justify killing people just for existing differently than they do are aggressive sociopaths, or in the case of this analogy.....wolves.
The wolves feed on the sheep without mercy. The wolves devour what they wish, take what they want, beacuse the only defence the sheep have is to huddle together in a big group, and HOPE the wolves change their mind.
There are wolves in this world, evil people, who want only to have, and just beacause it is yours (to include your very life) means nothing to the wolves. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep.
There is no safety in denial.
There is a third animal, feared by both.
Hated by the wolf because it stands in the wolf's path of destruction, willing to fight the rightous battle, even against superior odds, for no reward other than the protection of the flock.
Hated by the sheep because, in the absence of a true wolf, it looks like a wolf, and is thuis scary, and is not a sheep, but, as soon as a wolf appears, the sheep run to cower behind their protector, for it is the only defence they have.
The sheepdog.
The sheepdog would love nothing better than to nap lazily in the sun atop a hill, completely oblivious to the sheep. The sheepdog doesn't really care about the sheep personally, but his life's drive is to protect those who fear even him.
Sheepdogs have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for the flock, they are the protectors, the warriors. They can walk into the heart of darkness and face the wolf, while others run in fact they live for it, it makes them feel alive and fulfilled.
We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools. But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid's school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours. Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports, in camouflage fatigues, holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa." Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day.
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't on one of those planes."
The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, "Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference."
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.
Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up. Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn't bring your gun, you didn't train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear, helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from "sheephood" and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
Sheep, Sheepdogs, Wolves. We all know them. We all belong somewhere in there among them, some closer to the core animal, others on the fringe, nudged arround by life's events.
It's up to you where you stand on a daily basis.
blown's right, there's an awful lot of sheep in this world. They just aren't the "sheep" he thinks they are with his head burried so far in the sands of denial that he can only see the IMAGINARY wolves, and thinks that everyone not with him in the sand are the sheep.