KnightofPhoenix wrote...
Of course most of them are, and they always will be. But there are different kinds of cattle. There is the kind of cattle that lives in a group that achieved numerous advancements, scientific and otherwise, and imposed its will on the other groups. And there is the other cattle that is too weak to fend for itself, or to do anything of importance except weep and regret its once great past. If whips are needed (which I prefer they are not) to wake that cattle from its slumber before it's eaten, then so be it.
From my own perspective, if the cattle are too stupid to fend for themselves or wake up to avoid being eaten, I personally would prefer to allow it to be eaten, since it would serve little other purpose if it can't even rouse it's most basic survival instincts to prevent untimely death, the future of the herd, maybe the species, is better off without them.
In other words, I'm not inclined to save people from themselves. Those with potential beyond being livestock will be able to break away from the herd, mature, and evolve. The rest, well....let them graze and be eaten. At best, they serve a purpose in their mindless grazing by craping out fertilizer necessary for new vegetation to feed a newer and improved generation.
Most people really don't truly understand just what total freedom is, and can't handle it, because with total freedom comes absolute responsibility for one's welfare and actions, and dealing with the consequences of incorrect descisions. People assume freedom is a wonderful thing where you can do whatever you like without worry for consequence. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is why, despite my own personal belief in an enlightened, evolved anarchist system, such a system could not realistically exist, nor could it in the near, forseeable future. But I can still dream of, or ponder, very distant possibilities.
"panem et circenses" (Bread and circus) - Augustus
Few quotes from history still carry the truth and validity that this one does. Examining Ancient Rome and modern society, we see nothing has essentially changed. Same banal focus, same banal urges.
That's what the cattle want and that's why I would not trust them to do what ambitious people have done.
It's them that made history and it's them that paved the way for any sort of advancement. If it's up to the cattle, they will be eaten, in one way or another, by the others.
Yes, they have shaped history. However, they have whipped their perspective herds along, whether they want it or not, or inflicted their views, often by force, on people who were perfectly content to exist in their current state. Again, if the cattle get eaten, well...it is their own problem. Exceptional cattle will back away from a suicidal herd.
I personally reject the kind of individualism that seperates me from my community and makes me oblivious to its needs and greatness. Though of course I reject totalitarianism completely, individuals should remain individuals, within a social context.
Most people would, even the smarter ones. The majority of humans, even exceptional humans, are social creatures, and prefer to exist in communities with shared history, culture, values, ect.
I, however, am not one of them, and have never desired to identify with any community or group, religous, national, or otherwise. And I get terribly annoyed when said groups try to inflict their collective identity/values upon me, simply because, by circumstance and fate, I happened to be born within artifical national boundaries, or because I happened to be born into a family that followed a particular religion.
Though I can't deny that, regardless of how I may feel, my place, time, and cirumstances of birth and upbringing have shaped my views in various ways.
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