June 14, 2012

• People Are Like Goats…….

    DISCLAIMER:  Just for the record, I like goats.
  

     Being raised in the deep south, I was used to folks raising chickens, pigs and beef cows. But, those that had an aversion to barbecue, just raised goats. These were mostly your burnt out hippies and hard core vegetarians. To each their own, I guess. Anyway, as an observant (nosey) kid, I was intrigued by goat behavior. They reminded me of people and still do to this day. The goat, with the loudest bleat, seemed to always maintain the attention of the others and they would always scurry after this alpha goat like intoxicated groupies. They would eat what the alpha ate, shit where he dumped, gang up on whatever goat displeased their leader and last of all, they would chant his bleatings over and over again. Too often, they completely surrendered their mental sovereignty to this head of the herd. 

      Once goat-people start to roam in the wake of these mentors, they are almost unsalvageable. Just like goats, you might try to train the critter to think for themselves, but you’ll only frustrate yourself, and irritate the goat. The more you try to make things normal….the more drama you create. Goats are stubborn and don’t care about think tanks and solution pools….they just want to eat everything they see, bite those that try to corral them and shit in everyone’s yard.

      Many socially entitled people just don’t see this analogy with goats, but subconsciously believe that they, like goats, are just deserving sheep from broken homes. Pandering rhetoric does not change what a person is….if you put a Green Bay Packer jersey on a goat….it’s still a goat! In this case, it’s the loudest bleats from politicians that provide this addictive mind-set.

      The sad reality of all this, is that some folks are righteous and hard working, while some are easily misguided individuals with the artistic integrity of a vending machine, the manners of a French waiter with delusions of grandeur and last of all, the morals of a goat. Americans are told from birth that they live in the greatest country on earth….but, the fact is, the U.S. is 55th in world literacy and it’s easy now to understand how sociopaths and politicians can herd them like goats.

   

   

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