Sheep

I get angry like other people, but how often are we angry at things that have been laid out for us to simmer over? Everything is being manipulated by "interested parties" to reflect the views that THEY hold. But how do you know that your views are yours and not simply a manufactured reality? You can either believe one argument or another.

The simple fact is that we're being lied to all the time. Only it's convenient to believe this particular lie at this particular moment. Is climate change really happening, are we all going to hell for our sins, and how do we know chicken tastes like chicken?

In the great scheme of things, the lies that we're told don't matter. We believe something to be true because someone else said it was so. They're view of an event or a thing becomes our truth. But fundamentally humans are a trusting species, or at least a herding species. We have a need to be part of a greater, wider norm. Maybe radical thinkers are radical because they don't think like everybody else.

All those that will tell you "I'm a free thinker" really aren't. Why would they describe themselves that way? Either they think or they don't. I know that my thoughts are somewhat aligned to those shared by the society I live in. If they weren't I wouldn't want to be part of it. But like everyone else, I have to try to fit in to a box, not because it makes me comfortable, but it makes others comfortable. So somewhere in the blur of wanting acceptance, doing the right thing cause it's normal and buying one size fits all everything, I've become a sheep.