The last 16 months have cultivated a great divide among the human race.
The first faction are what I like to call “Thinking folk” and is comprised of it’s own two halves: Those who draw conclusions using limited experience or knowledge, and the other half who inform themselves a little further before declaring a position on what will ultimately form a “BELIEF”.
Beliefs, you understand, are much stronger than just your ordinary run of the mill opinions. Beliefs grow roots. They forge a stronghold within your core and are extremely difficult to remove.
Both sides of this sector can be right or wrong, and can be equally annoying in defense of their respective viewpoints, but the one thing they have in common is that they mulled it over, and then took a stand.
The other segment of this rapidly growing discord is comprised of individuals currently executing a frightening renaissance of “Ye olde” ignorance. Perhaps the greatest assembly of mindless conviction since the Jonestown massacre, only this time on a global scale. Whether knowingly or unwittingly, these people are heartlessly and mindlessly erasing history. History that includes established knowledge and science, but also extends to recent memory and even personal life lessons.
The most alarming feature of this group is that they are not a minority. They are a confederacy that may prove to be the most dangerous human assemblage of all, because combined, they form a gale force wind that with the slightest change in temperature can either become a hurricane that flattens North America, or a volcano that obliterates Europe. One would think, from this description, that these individuals hold great power. Sadly, this great apparatus of sheer multitude is wielded not by them, but by whoever governs the day. These poor, stupid, most unstable of threats to human existence are none other than the silent followers. The non-thinkers. No short or long-term memory for these last-place medal winners. Yesterday, “Masks bad”. Today “Everyone, without exception, must wear a mask.”. Last year “Ivermectin is not a solution. We need a vaccine.” Last week “Even if you’ve had it, were twice-vaccinated, and received a positive anti-body test, you can still contract and spread the disease… so you must CONTINUE to wear a mask.”. Well, I guess one cannot argue with science now, can they? Nor logic, it would seem.
To label these people as “Sheep” is I feel, offensive… to sheep. A more apt metaphor would be “Lemmings”.
You see, Lemmings are a species of rodent with a long and almost miraculous history of repeatedly going from massive breeding and OVER-population to the brink of extinction in very short periods of time. Driven strictly by biological urges, lemmings migrate in large groups when population density reaches critical mass. They can swim a bit which comes in handy when in search of a new habitat. The problem is, they only really swim well enough to cross a pond or small lake, but since they can’t tell the difference between one of those and an ocean, they kind of tend to drown a lot.
Some scientists have postulated that they commit mass suicide by jumping off a cliff but it has since been discovered that, like the drowning, it is unintentional. It occurs simply because the confused (and really dumb) lemmings at the front of the line reached the edge… and just kept going. All of the other lemmings, determined to mindlessly follow, push forth so aggressively, that even if there were ONE progressive-thinking lemming who attempted to stop and say, “Wait a minute. I think the shmuck in front of me got it wrong!” The others, in their unrelenting forward motion would simply drive that individual over the edge before the words even left his lips.
In fact, at this very moment, one of those “lemmings” of the human variety are saying “That’s preposterous! Lemmings can’t speak!”
And even as I write this, it is entirely possible that the history of the very lemming itself is being erased from the internet, Wikipedia page and all so that it seems that this entire lesson was nothing more than a half-baked conspiracy theory by some frustrated fable writer in an attempt to undermine all of the great benevolent political figures that are only looking out for the best interest of mankind. Oh well, brace yourselves for extinction.
This is fantastic. We are all in a sad state
“…even if there were ONE progressive-thinking lemming who attempted to stop and say, “Wait a minute. I think the shmuck in front of me got it wrong!” The others, in their unrelenting forward motion would simply drive that individual over the edge” Hahaha!