Re: [Mind's Eye] Re: people

I think it's mostly a dopey meme (not on the sayer but on the populace).
We're pretty much trained at birth to fall into the same old cultural
traps that those before us have because they learned little from
history, probably because most of it is taught as 'chronology'. If
people were taught and exposed to exemplary discourse rich in critical
assessment of authorities (on information) people would be a bit more
tenacious in demanding less histrionics and more value for their dollar.
I would like to have a board of scientists, ethicists, philosophers,
sociologists running this country than some jackass the average joe
would vote for. Even though I did vote for the current US prez, why the
hell wouldn't they do a blood test or autopsy before getting rid of
Osama?? I'd like to fuckin know it wasn't one of his crash dummies, it
doesn't matter anyway, politics make me sick. I better stop now. ;-)

On 5/5/2011 9:22 PM, the taoist shaman wrote:
> i think what i ment with the original sheepole quote is that most
> people dont think for themselves , let media/gov. do it for them .
>
> Ash wrote:
>> Well, I think we are a part of the animal kingdom, last time I checked
>> we were mammals in the sapien family. But I think the mentality of the
>> herd is a natural behavior to social creatures, that and our talented
>> rhetoric for negative reinforcement of behaviors that go against the
>> norm while the norm is reinforced with confirmation bias.
>>
>> On 5/5/2011 3:17 PM, the taoist shaman wrote:
>>> your statments contradict each other , besides we are not animals ,
>>> well....... i can be a bit of an animal from time to time but .....
>>>
>>> On May 4, 10:02 pm, rigsy03<rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How can you expect governance unless you can control the population?
>>>> What else is new? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Even a family needs order and control, doesn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Don't you observe the order of nature? The routines of the natural
>>>> world serve a definite purpose. Eat or be eaten. :-)
>>>>
>>>> On May 3, 12:50 pm, the taoist shaman<bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> are most people really sheepole ? can i get a ya or nay- Hide quoted text -
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