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Isn’t that the biggest problem we have? People don’t question anything they’re told. If the schools or media portray something, then almost everybody just says “okay”. And they NEVER think for a second that maybe it’s not true. They never question anything..
Isn’t that the biggest problem we have? People don’t question anything they’re told. If the schools or media portray something, then almost everybody just says “okay”. And they NEVER think for a second that maybe it’s not true. They never question anything..
The people are sheeple.
Yep, the fact we we live in a country where a large segment of the population cares about people like the Kardashians proves people don’t think for themselves.
Isn’t that the biggest problem we have? People don’t question anything they’re told. If the schools or media portray something, then almost everybody just says “okay”. And they NEVER think for a second that maybe it’s not true. They never question anything..
The people are sheeple.
True, but if I can take some exception......
Many of us of a certain heritage are taught to question most anything. Same goes for others who pursue education in the standard "classical" manner.
However, leaders and business would ALWAYS rather people not think for themselves. Therefore, almost by default, if one does not try hard to avoid the mass mentality they are likely to be sucked up by it.
To add to the People are Sheeple I'd say this. The idea that Adults change in amazing ways because they are older is bunk...IMHO and in quite a vast experience of dealing with people. It may actually be the opposite that is true - those with certain tendencies who may over-ride them earlier in life due to "community" (school, family, parents, work) often get more hardened in those feelings as they grow older.
People would rather be miserable and mean than wrong....which is what often leads them to sheepledom. Nothing satisfies many more than thinking "dittos". Isn't "dittos" just human speak for "baahhhh"?
Every time either side slings around epithets like "sheep", "sheeple", "Ovomit", "RepubliCons" (and both are equally guilty of it just as why both have their BS list of reasons to argue why they think they don't), I just roll my eyes.
I will eat my shoe live on YouTube if it does NOT produce exactly the opposite intended effect.
If I had a dollar for every time I read someone say "wake up America!", I would be a billionaire several times over by now.
Oh. And never underestimate the power of the bandwagon effect. It's actually been proven time and time and time again that it's real. And it works. Look to professional sports fans, what music people listen to, what movies they watch, etc. Same logic extends out to politics as well. Most people don't want to be branded as outcasts or "oddities" or "the ones that backed the losing side". Who remembers the VHS versus Beta format war? That's just one of dozens of examples I can cite.
So in that context, yeah. Maybe people are sheep and easily herded around. Even if not quite the way the OP is saying.
Just remember the right used to say the same about the Obama followers.
One thing is true. All party hardliners are sheep. Anyone who votes party line? Baaaaaaaa, baaaaaaaa.
I don't think voting is the issue since there are two parties (although I have voted 3rd in two POTUS elections).
We are discussing the way people think...or, maybe the way people are TOLD to think and then they follow it.
If one person voted for Obama because he was a constitutional lawyer and another voted for him because he seemed like a decent family man with a good head on his shoulders, they are not sheep. They are thinking human beings.
If we are talking Trump - I can honestly say that 90% plus of Trump voters I talk to have no idea who he is/was. I lived in NJ and owned property within sight of his Casinos and was there throughout the entire mess. I know suppliers put out of business by his "businessman" ways. I know of 100's of millions of our NJ tax money that he got with the promises he would bring growth to the area (and everything went downhill from there).
I know much more than that. So when I don't vote for or approve of Trump, it's because I know who he is and I know the results of his "work".
There is very little difference between the mention above of the Kardashians and the mention of Trump - both entertainment celebrities except the Kardashians didn't make it at others people's expenses. Nor did they turn vast fortunes into small ones.
So, yeah, I'd vote for a Kardashian first because they know how to create value.
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