It’s official. People are like sheep.
But, did we really need to investigate that? I could’ve told them this without spending so much time on research.
I mean, the climate hype, UFOs, Lost, Geert Wilders; people are sheep alright.
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What do you mean with the “climate hype”? It seems obvious from all evidence that people are causing big changes to the global environment and climate.
You’ve probably seen “Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore’s famous document about the climate change? One of the best documents I’ve seen in recent years.
What pisses me off, really bad, is that so many people are not even willing to watch documents like that, or hear and see news about such things. They rather watch tv, Bold & Beautiful or show wrestling, because they are more entertaining and don’t make you think about too difficult things…
If being cheese-like means something bad, here in this context, that truly is it - unwillingness to face the reality and - instead of it - willingness to live in a comfy soft dreamworld. People like that are the real cause for most evil in the world. If people were more willing to see the truth around them, and act appropriately, we would have far less dictators, pollution, wars, crimes and other problems around us.
But nah.., I guess that would be all too hard for many people, to see the truth and oppose bad things - they just want to close their eyes and have their daily fix of brain dead soap operas of show wrestling instead…
Comment by irbis — February 27, 2008 @ 11:40 am
irbis: “being cheese-like”
meant sheep-like, not cheese-like, of course… :P
Comment by irbis — February 27, 2008 @ 11:44 am
I’m not talking about the climate change itself, but about the hype surrounding it.
Comment by Administrator — February 27, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Ok. But there has also been lots of “hype” against the environmental issues. I don’t see too many people panicking yet because of climate change, so I don’t know where the hype is? Pollution and other environmental issues are still much, much bigger scale problems than there being too much “hype” or hysteria about the climate change and pollution.
As to crowd and flock behaviour, people are social, and I suppose they tend to follow each other… Not much wrong with that if the direction is good and the shepherd is ok… Sheep should just be clever enough not to follow wrong people and directions.
Comment by irbis — February 27, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
Thom i know you didn’t intentionnaly bash the recent environmental awakening amongst the general public. But realise that you sounded really pejorative.
I might even add that you were victim of case of “sheepness” in this case, as i can’t count people talking about this supposed “hype”, and those generally just heard that somewhere without checking the facts.
This is some kind of FUD that really hurts my scientific feelings (yes they exist)! As scientist are trying to warn the general public and politicians for decades, when they just begin to succeed, some people just shout “booh political manipulation”, “booh comercial hype”…
In the past you could have said “this anti-esclavagism hype” although it was a “real and justified anti-esclavagism _awakening_” (”prise de conscience” in french :)
I fullly support what irbis said!
Regards anyway
Comment by aldeck — February 27, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Oh and funny, you emphasize on “no investigation” and “without research” in your OP, as it is the very behaviour of sheeps ;-P
Comment by aldeck — February 27, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Umm… Well, I may have sounded a wee bit too serious in my above comments..? Of course it is also ok for everyone to take it easy, forget problems for a moment and relax (whether it is watching some stupid soap operas or not..). Being too serious all the time may only give you a headache…
But, anyway, instead of people’s crowd behavior or so-called “sheep mentality” I’m much more irritated by many people’s ostrich mentality: hiding one’s head in the sand in order not to see bad things around and to avoid being involved in solving common problems (like environmental problems). (although, real ostriches seem actually not to hide their heads in sand, but rather just duck down in order to avoid being spotted by predators - which does make sense too… :-)
Comment by irbis — February 27, 2008 @ 11:57 pm