In The Run Up To A General Election

[poliphilo]

We are beasties, smart beasties, but still beasties.

We move in herds or packs. Herd Leader says "follow me into that valley because there's good moss to eat there," and we follow.

Even if past experience suggests that the moss will be scarce and the wolves plentiful.

And when Herd Leader says, "herd member X is unpleasing to me and needs to be driven out," we turn on herd member X and butt them in the ribs.

All of us together.

We disgust me sometimes.

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

You are one of those, I have no doubt, as am I. We are our own hope, and each other's.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I would like to think so.

I was quite conservative as a young man. I grow more radical and anarchistic the older I get.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I sometimes catch myself giving in to the common denominator, but then I catch myself. It's the radical and anarchistic people who change the world, I think. LIke the squeaky wheel, the burr under the saddle...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're suffering the build-up to an election. Watching politicians tout for votes brings out the misanthrope in me.

[hepo.livejournal.com]

'It's the radical and anarchistic people who change the world, I think. LIke the squeaky wheel, the burr under the saddle...'

Well said.


HePo

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I grow more radical and anarchistic the older I get.

I'm glad you think for yourself, and your ideas often give me new ways of seeing things.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've just been watching the episode of Star Trek TNG in which Mark Twain gives his opinion of the human race. I found it highly congenial.