We the Sheeple...

I just learned something about sheep. Honestly, after 38 years, I just learned something that, I guess, should have been obvious. Sheep have a strong instinct to follow a leader. If one sheep moves, the rest of the flock are likely to follow, even at their own peril, to the point that they've been known to follow, one after another, as a leader has fallen from a cliff.

Did you know that about sheep? I guess I didn't. I figured they called followers "sheep" because sheep tend to stay together, and don't have much of a brain. But I didn't know that it's really because they will exhibit a "hive" mentality, because one of them is moving, the rest better do the same. There's no room for individuality in a flock of sheep.

"Don't be the nail that sticks out farther than the rest... that's the one that will get hit first."
- Japanese saying

Individuality is ridiculed, and we are convinced that we need to "go with the flow" and maintain the "staus quo." God help me to encourage my children to be true to themselves, true to who God made them to be, and to always ask "why?"