2013-08-30 Thinking about sheep

Today I'm contemplating the biblical(?) sheeple allegory.
Their world consists of the one flock, the shepherds and their dogs.
They always go where the sheep dog leads them.
They are sheared and groomed by others hands and do not feel good if they are not sheared - at least sometimes.
They have no aptitude nor willingness to learn anything really new themselves. - They are willing to learn about the walls, gates, feeding trough ... of new pens, where the dog may lead them to.
- Of course they have no hands and not much capability for speech other then "bah", "baah" or "baaah",
permitting for the possibility, that I'm not completely getting the differences in the fine nuances between there "bah"s. ;)
They don't usually answer when spoken to, let alone start a conversation themselves.
Their main feature is to go where the dog leads them.
Anything in their world but themselves, the shepherds and the dogs must be wolves.
They probably never get the idea there could be anything else inside or outside of their world.
- Maybe that outside never occurs to them at all.
They trust big anonymous corporations more then their friends.
- Of course it is silly to consider sheep could be friends - as long as they're one flock.
So they go where the dogs lead them, to be completely owned by Google...
They trust the ones who built the walls of their containment.
Of course - they are only sheep.
Their world consists of the one flock, the dogs and the shepherd - they trust with their lifes...
- everything else must be wolves... - as they have been preached to over and over and over again (I know that procedure by the name of "brainwashing". Perhaps it is really terrorism.(?))
Looking around, I see no more wolves today - they have become (almost) extinct.
But there are still sheep around - and slaughterhouses.
I'm still contemplating - whether I like or dislike the smell ;) ...
The smell tends to linger for a while after the sheep are gone.
Btw. wolves may be quite dangerous for sheep,
but not so much for man wielding arms.
Good arms or tools do not usually grow on trees, but are produced by skilled peoples work.
(Thinking about infrastructure, mutual support etc. now.)
The bible seem so full of disgusting, uninviting allegories and stories - things no one would really ever want.
Full of sheep and shepherds, "casting pearls before swine" ...
Someone needs to write a nicer and more useful play book sometime.
The sooner the better!


PS.: I also heard traitors being called dogs. Dogs may be man's best friend, but traitors to sheep as well.
Traitors are the ones that suddenly (unexpectedly) turn around and do damage to the ones they supposedly support. Perhaps sheep have no memory also.