People are nothing but sheep
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People are really like sheep aren’t they?  I mean they will literally follow everyone else and not think for themselves.  “I’ve got to have an iPod mommy, because everyone else has one and I’ve got to buy my music on iTunes too because otherwise I’ll be a freak and Jayne and Timmy won’t talk to me anymore!”

You buy your 32” Sony widescreen television screens from (insert high street store of your choice), you subscribe to sky, the BBC and whatever else next door are in to.  You have to make sure you’ve bought your house, where’s the best place to buy a house, send Jimmy to Montessori so he can grow up and be a good little consumer like mommy (stay at home breeder and Betterware rep) and daddy (works a boring 9 to 5 and doesn’t care as long as he can play around without the missus finding out).

People are nothing but sheep

You have a PC bought at Time or PC world and it’s got Windows or Linux or Apple doo da operating system of the month on it.  Who cares, you’re buying the stuff and still doing it because someone says you have to!  You’ve got to install the latest software and get the latest upgrades, because you’re told to.

You’ve got to shop at the designer stores, no actually scrub that; you’ve got to buy your clothes at Oxfam and Help the Aged, because that’s the latest cool thing to do.  Yes, every one else is doing that now aren’t they.  Don’t forget to recycle and take your clothes to the clothes bank, that way they’ll be ready for the next batch of sheep in some third world country!

You buy the latest consumer gadgets, because your friends and people you touch every day make you feel you HAVE to.  You don’t want to stand out in the crowd now do you?  You beat out the same worthless existence and worship the same crap religion everyone in your section of toy town do, probably because you don’t know any different and why would you?

Maybe it’s the fault of the media, maybe it’s because of religion, or there again it could be the lack of religion in society.  Maybe it’s because of THAT religion.  Yes, I’ve got your attention now haven’t I?  Anyway – this isn’t a gripe about religion.  I think it's probably best that we save that little chestnut for another day.

No, it’s plain and simple.  People are just sheep and they’re pretty stupid sheep as it happens.  You do what you are told and you do it when you are told, end of story.  You can’t think for yourselves and you don’t even realise that you’ve got a choice.

You believe everything that you see and hear and you no longer question the source.  Even the wide availability of that classic movie Nineteen Eighty Four and the message it carries is completely lost on you.

Bah!


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I think the main reason people are stupid is a. because they are sheep but b. they don't even care - which is even worse because it means they don't want to stop being sheep - the government loves them! LMFAO
*Phil_1984  27-Aug-2010 21:29

 
Actually, in a literal sense , a lot of young people are deaf these days and will get much deafer as they age. They play loud music on MP3 players straight into their ears, even louder music in their cars and , as teenagers seem to be in charge of every shop and restaurant now, they pipe loud and annoying music at the customers all day as well.

The sheeplike customers grumble among themselves but say nothing as they don't want to appear to be "moaners". The 19 year old "managers" don't agree that it is loud as they are well on the way to a totally deaf old age and cannot hear it properly.
*another anon  20-Jul-2010 10:41

 
Congo is somewhat confused by the references however this is an interesting, if slightly worrying gripe...

One is aware, of course that the citizenry in the mass are to be avoided wherever possible but are those self-same masses really as predictable as the griper professes?
*Congo  20-Jul-2010 08:46

 
That last comment was from a boring sheep that's pi$$ed off because he's only just figured it out. Go eat grass you uninteresting tool!
*Bah!  20-Jul-2010 02:24

 
Sheep are people too.
This is a surprisingly dull and contradictory ramble, maybe if more people were sad and lonely they would not be so docile.
If everyone did what they were told there would be no crime, no dissent and no conflict. You might as well say the old are blind and the young are deaf, or is it the other way around. Half truths are so easy?
*Wowthatisobviousandirrelevant  19-Jul-2010 23:43

 
I know exactl what you mean and surprisingly the only people who aren't like this are ones who lived in other types of cultures and other eras before living in this one. My family used to live in soviet occupied nations and what they see in America today and many other rich countries is even worse than what they had in their areas. People don't want to rise up, protest, boycott, or even be told they have a choice because they are currently very comftorable in their lives and if they learn the truth they won't like it and as such will have to do something . But they don't want to b/c they are berry happy now or at least they like to believe so.
*The Zeitgeist Movement  12-Jul-2010 07:34

 
There a wider availability of the classic book 1984...

I'm not sure what you want us to do here. It seems that if anyone does anything that someone else is doing, or owns something someone else owns (in your world mass production just wont work, and mass production allows better things for all) then you are a sheep.

Apparently each and every day of our lives (you sleep at night? conformist) should be filled with just original activities. (eating?! you bourgeois conformist pig!)

See, flawed logic like that and your general demeanor in the post makes me think you are an idiot. Many people agree.... but that hardly matters as they are sheep.
*Fearful Anon  08-Jul-2010 12:40

 
There a wider availability of the classic book 1984...

I'm not sure what you want us to do here. It seems that if anyone does anything that someone else is doing, or owns something someone else owns (in your world mass production just wont work, and mass production allows better things for all) then you are a sheep.

Apparently each and every day of our lives (you sleep at night? conformist) should be filled with just original activities. (eating?! you bourgeois conformist pig!)

See, flawed logic like that and your general demeanor in the post makes me think you are an idiot. Many people agree.... but that hardly matters as they are sheep.
*Fearful Anon  08-Jul-2010 12:01

 
we who are of strong minds need sheep so people like us can set there trends and potentially be their shepherds this is the order of the world
*different  26-Jun-2010 01:20

 
Hah! I love it, so true, I know exactly the sort of people who you speak of in the first two paragraphs!
*Bexter BMF  14-May-2010 19:20

 
nice rant, and sadly it is true, most people are "happy consumers", but its not their fault, its the media and their propaganda, most people are afraid to stand out, and go against the norm; this is what happens when we live in a fascist country
*Robert  12-Mar-2010 23:08

 
Good post mate.
Its worse here than anywhere.
This gaff has had it.

Every town and city looks the same.
*TB  30-Jan-2010 23:09


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