Herd Extinct, by Robert Gore
The crowd never thinks. People are only comfortable in a pack, and they’re most comfortable in one that’s racing off a cliff.
The Golden Pinnacle
Herd animals herd because there is safety in numbers. Even if the wolves or lions attack, they’re only going to get a small percentage of the herd. Such attacks even have an evolutionary advantage: they eliminate sick or weak members. Those who think humans are not herd animals labor under such vast misconceptions that they are beyond the reach of SLL.
One herd, Wall Street-Washington economists, surpass wildebeests and sheep. Their behavior, because it is so uniform, can easily be described. Membership in one of two subspecies is required: Keynesians or monetarists. Both have long histories of predictions that didn’t predict and policy remedies that didn’t remedy, but they all believe because they all believe. Intellectual foundations this shaky increase individual and group insecurity, so they base their work on the same set of statistics emanating from the government. The government’s assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions are never questioned, except by outcasts from the herd. After all, those assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions come from the herd itself.
The Golden Pinnacle
Herd animals herd because there is safety in numbers. Even if the wolves or lions attack, they’re only going to get a small percentage of the herd. Such attacks even have an evolutionary advantage: they eliminate sick or weak members. Those who think humans are not herd animals labor under such vast misconceptions that they are beyond the reach of SLL.
One herd, Wall Street-Washington economists, surpass wildebeests and sheep. Their behavior, because it is so uniform, can easily be described. Membership in one of two subspecies is required: Keynesians or monetarists. Both have long histories of predictions that didn’t predict and policy remedies that didn’t remedy, but they all believe because they all believe. Intellectual foundations this shaky increase individual and group insecurity, so they base their work on the same set of statistics emanating from the government. The government’s assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions are never questioned, except by outcasts from the herd. After all, those assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions come from the herd itself.
In Shakespearean terms...faced with the question...they have chosen "not to be".
They self evidently do not represent 'Conscious' humanity.
A mob is a pack of fools who can thoughtlessly trash their own town because their sports team won a championship.
While arriving to your point, if we are free thinking individuals that base our decisions on reason (A=A) and we live by value-for-value then, in that coming together, we celebrate these powerful truths as a common denominator and we remain within our free will as individuals making a choice and accepting our responsibility for our choices. Our coming together is to revel in our different talents and the fair trade of these talents where nothing is free -it is earned.
The opposite of this is the anonymous uniting of numbers who delegate their reasoning to the mob without any control over the outcome. No personal power, no personal responsibility since all is relinquished to the herd/mob. And the end game is almost always -something free.
"Line up 25 economists and they'd all point in different directions."