“A nation of sheep will surely beget a government of wolves.” -Henry de Jouvenel
The ever increasingly lupine nature of our “feddle gummint” tells me that our political elite and “feddle gummint” bureaucraps definitely think we are a nation of sheep.
Is it so?
Yep, they’re looking pretty lupine these days.
I’d say it’s probably because the people have stopped paying attention – after having been taught to have the attention span of a goldfish by the media.
“Oh look, a squirrel!”
*heh* Squirrels n nuts.
A big “Yep” on the attention span thing. *sigh* It’s one reason that reading of books has declined… unless the books are presented in short, bite-sized chunks that take about as much time to read as the program chunks between commercials. *sigh* Well, it’s not quite that bad. People will often read longer than “between commercial program chunk time slices” if a book is really entertaining. Of course, folks are reading less well nowadays than in days of yore, so…
I’d say it’s probably because the people have stopped paying attention –
Yeah, I’d say that’s the biggest problem. The other (related) problem is that nothing these idiots do, taken by itself, is all that shocking. It mostly gets disturbing only when you look at it in context with everything else. Well, most folks are completely unaware of the “everything else” so even when something is brought under the spotlight the outrage is short-lived.
In short, I think we’re fucked.
What were we taking about again ?
AG, “fucked” is far too friendly a term for the situation we’re in. *heh*