Why are most people sheep?

Question

why are most people sheep that don't want to know what is going on around them then try to rip the knickers out of someone that has a different world viewpoint than them calling them crazy and such. it is human nature to conspire and to believe otherwise is naive

Answer 1

Most people are sheep because they only listen to one type of media. The news media appears to only have one lean and that looks like it is left, which is owned by groups that have ripped off the middle and the poor class. Another reason could be is that the people have ear phone and listen to music or they could just be intimidated by the left groups like ACLU or CAIR and too darn scared to break away from the herd.

Answer 2

Could be the food, project Haarp, the way we were raised to support corporations, TV, C.F.R., or some kind of 1988 " They Live " movie plot.

I was surprised they actually, admitted that the drinking water has a lot of medications in it.

Answer 3

i think its cos people are scared what other people will say if you dont follow the crowd!

Answer 4

Because, bless 'em, they just ain't that bright.

Answer 5

We humans have a finite mind that is easy to tweak.  We are so apt to learn our information by observing what the mainstream media tells us.  We don't care who is behind the curtain dangling the puppets.  All we care about is the show going on in front of us.  A perfect example is all those people who think if we pull out of Iraq, the country will destabilize and crumble only to be rebuilt by a massive Al-Qaeda-like empire.  IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.  There are much more oppressive regimes around the world that hate us as much as anyone, but the mainstream media keeps the sheep focused on Iraq and "the war on terror."  There is no such thing as a war on terror.  Only a few firefights with some middle eastern rebels/extremists/freedom fighters/whateveruwannacall'em.  FOX news calls them terrorists.

The only thing I am terrified of is losing my liberties that MILLIONS OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS DIED FOR.

Answer 6

in teenagers and young adults, it tends to be 'peer pressure', and as adults, we just want to fit in. It's human nature to be with the crowd, because then you have a larger 'fighting force'. Thus, if you have a different opinion against a group of 100 people, they will use each other as moral and emotional support to justify their opinions.

Answer 7

Over controlling parents who do not allow a child to think for themselves whilst growing up = s SHEEPS! in later life....

Answer 8

God has given brain to human race to think what is good for them and others but the ratio between non selfish and selfish is 1:1000.

Only one percent of the population think good about the others and act as he thinks.

Answer 9

I guess. People are naturally followers, some just become stubborn in their beliefs. Open-minded people are one in a million.

Answer 10

baa

Answer 11

People are complacent. I don't understand why more of aren't up in arms about the erosion of our freedoms. Britain is becoming a very uncomfortable place to be right now. We seem to have to follow a prescribed way of thinking or find ourselves in trouble.

I heared about the poor elderly lady who was arrested for singing a hymn, because it offended a couple of people. Where is the freedom of expression gone?

Political correctness seems to be a form of thought control and I have to say that I'm sick of it. We seem to be sleepwalking into a state of whole life control and I don't believe that we should just quietly accept it.

Answer 12

Most people seem too unconcerned or lazy to look beyond what they are being fed by the MSM.  Unless they are directly affected, they are more concerned with "American Idol" performances or their favorite sports team.  When more and more people begin to lose their jobs, lose money in their investments, etc., they will probably start to look further into the reasons this country is in such an economic mess.

I think ignorance is another reason so many people are so easily led by others. For the last 30 or 40 years our public educational system has been steadily declining.  Kids graduate without an understanding of things most would consider basics.  The appalling lack of knowledge of basic historical or geographical facts comes to mind.  Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I feel that was the goal of many politicians  and those with political influence.  They have succeeded in "dumbing down" much of the population.  It is hard to care about something you do not understand.

Then there are those who are easily led by charismatic religious leaders--but, I'm not even going to go there. This is obvious to most folks, anyway.

Answer 13

Because they are idiots. By the way, just because you pertain to an alternative viewpoint on the world, doesn't mean you aren't a total cud-chewing, field-dwelling sheep, as a lot of people on this website appear to believe.

Answer 14

because they are worthless, and I suppose you and I are too, considering you don't have the numbers, let alone power to make a difference in anything

“Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws.”

Baron M.A. Rothchild

Answer 15

clarify

Answer 16

Wait until the "sheep" get their A**** sheared!  Then you will hear whining and moaning for miles and miles.  Stupid is, stupid does!

Answer 17

Take Obamaites, media says he's cool they jump on his bandwagon, does not matter he is most liberal of Dems., His pastor and now family member hates America, his wife only now likes America.......But he's cool says the media and the sheep just go Baaaaa...Baaaaaraaaaaak

Answer 18

It's just so much easier to live life uninformed, uncaring and spineless.

Knowing and caring means you have to DO something.

Most people just don't want that.

Answer 19

This may not explain why we act like sheep, but should give you an idea as to why so many of us are led to believe what we believe.

Answer 20

It's easier to be sheep because you don't get the blame when a collective decision goes wrong.  It takes a lot of courage and independence to challenge what everyone else says is right and most people don't have that level of courage or independence.

Answer 21

Thre are those liek me who are born leaders! and others who are sheep afraid of their own shadow.Get out there you lot,be LOUD AND PROUD !

Answer 22

Hi Sweetie,

Unfortunately, we as a race, a human race, do not all aspire to be leaders.  

There is a small handful of us that rise to the occasion, and use our God given Leadership skills, but as I said, it is a very small group.

I choose to be a Leader.  When I look behind me, there are people there, that look to me for direction.  That is how I know I am a True Leader.

It is all a matter of Choice.

Love,

Mom

Answer 23

The media and news outlets in our country are now run by only 5 major corporations. The richest Americans control what we all read, hear, and see, especially on t.v.

If a news anchor supports the president and the war he/she is considered rational. If an anchor questions a president or a war he/she is considered biased.

If the president is accused of having anything other than pure motives then the accuser is called a conspiracy theorist.

The Bush administration lied to get us into war with Iraq. That is perfectly clear at this point but you cannot say that on any media outlet owned by those 5 major media corporations.

People believe what they see and what they think they know. Anything that doesn't seem to fit with that reality is called crazy.

Answer 24

bcoz they too lazy to think for themselves..pple only feel comfy in groups and being told what to do or how to do it ..so if someone is different they attack...

Answer 25

Get back in line! Youre not paid to think.

Answer 26

because the government is turning american's into a bunch of robots.... - we used to be free thinkers, we used to protest and make things happen... now we just sit and shake our heads and say, "what a shame", but take no action.... - i love my country, i am a navy vet, but we are lazy and arrogant...

Answer 27

They like to hide in the crowd.

Answer 28

I can't believe all the good answers!  Maybe SOME people ARE waking up.

The rest just think that we think "the sky is falling".

Most of the "folks who think the sky is falling" can see the writing on the wall. Some of us who've been on this earth for 40-50 years are more see what's happening... and we've seen this king of thing before. The majority of the people don't have a clue about what's going on around them.

Some people have already lost their home. Due to the housing and credit crisis, it is estimated that 20 million Americans will LOSE their home over the next 2-3 years. Do you realize how many people that is? That's 20 million HOUSEHOLDS. (That means around 60-70 million people will lose their home, or about 1 out of every 5.)

People in CA are already living in "tent cities"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tR...

The value of our dollar is 1/2 of what it was just 4-5 years ago. That may not mean a lot to you if you're young, but imagine if you had saved all your life for retirement, and now your savings were worth 1/2 of what you thought they were going to be. Imagine you've got say $100,000 to live the rest of your life on, and now you know it's only going to buy around $50,000 worth of goods and medical care at best.

Around 10 years ago it cost me $18 to fill up my car with gas. Yesterday it cost me $46. My pay hasn't gone up anywhere near that much. The Fed tells us inflation is low at 3-4%, but they don't count the cost of food, housing or gas into their estimates. Inflation in those areas is around 10%. They just give us the numbers they wanna give us instead of telling us the truth.

We have, as a nation, $60 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities for social security and medicare. The Baby Boomers are retiring and all that money they paid into social secruity being devalued along with our currency. Image having to live on $1200/mo, when that $1200 is worth half of what it was worth just 5 years ago.

When I was growing up, our food tasted good. It had flavor, and it was nutritious. Today, instead of individual farmers growing our food naturally, large corporations grow GMO food (genetically modified) so they can produce more food cheaper... to make more profits... and they haven't even done enough testing to determine if this bland-tasting c**p is ok for you.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tR...

Now we're finding out that the water you drink every day out of the tap is POISONED. Everything that's made with tap water is POISONED as well. Flouride in our water came about as a way to get rid of flouride pollution from the making of the atomic bomb. Flouride is a dealy poison and yet we drink it every day, with no real idea of its effects. Flouride causes a reduction in your IQ (hhhmmm), increased risk of bone cancer, flourosis of the teeth and many other health problems. It's ok for your teeth applies topically, but it's not ok for you to ingest it. The label on your toothpaste says to call Poison Control if a small child ingests more than a pea-sized drop of flouride. But it's ok to add to our water supply?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8NLbRL86...

You may not realize how bad off the economy is, because we are just now beginning to feel the effects (tent cities)... but many experts say our economy is in much worse shape than it was right before the Great Depression. Maybe you don't remember those days, I don't either, but my parents do. And it was not a fun time for Americans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyYyNaJxj...

The people who had money invested in Bear Stearns lost everything. J.P. Morgan got handed 30 billion by the Fed and the investors ended up with nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZCNlPwG...

Just because this stuff isn't affecting YOU yet, doesn't mean it's not going to in the near future.

Our politician's couldn't give 2 rat's asses about our country.

Some Americans, the true patriots of this great nation... DON'T trust the federal government as far as they can throw them. They are a bunch of rich, elitist f*cks with nothing on their mind but more power, control and profits for their international corporations. In this country, globalization only benefits the wealthy.

The UN-loving freaks and globalists, like David Rockefeller and the high-ranking members of the Council on Foreign Relations, have spent the majority of this century sabotaging our government, eroding our rights and freedoms, diminishing our sovereinty, and destroying the middle class.

Americans are complacent because they have no clue what's really happening. They go through their lives just trying to get by, which is harder and harder every year, completely oblivious to what their federal government is doing. Our media is controlled by 7 huge conglomerate companies who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Source: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/475...

They use distractions like Britney Spears and brain-washing techniques to tell us their side of the story only.

So... you guys just keep voting for who they tell you to vote for on TV. That's exactly what they want.

Go to the Council on Foreign Relations website ( http://www.cfr.org ) and type in "North American Union" into the search bar. Look at some of the speeches and papers, particularly the ones by Robert A. Pastor, and you'll find that they are working toward merging the U.S. with Canada and Mexico in an EU-style North American Union (NAU).

This group is the real power behind our government. The CFR has 100's of the most important people in our country (and others), mainly politicians and wealthy corporation owners. Some people say they want one-world government, some say that's just a conspiracy theory. Either way they're making it easier for their international corporations and harder on us.

I'm all for capitalism, but with capitalism you have to have a SMALL GOVERNMENT, so big business can't get in bed with big government. Mussollini had a term for that... "corporatism". Another word for FASCISM.

The main stream media... they are members of the CFR too.

If you look at the policies they are implementing in our country and around the world, and you think about how sneakily they are pulling off this NAU thing, I don't think there can be any other conlusion other than they are trying to erode our sovereignty and get rid of the U.S. altogether.

By the way, Hillary, Obama, McCain... all CFR shills.

See, so you really don't have a choice. How can we afford more war? How can we afford national health care? We can't. They are tanking our economy on purpose, devaluing our dollar in order to introduce us to the "Amero", one currency for the entire North American continent. (That's why oil is so high... it's NOT... the dollar is so worthless.)

I'm not crazy, and I'm not making this up. Look around, you'll find the evidence. This is exactly how they did it in Europe. It took them about 50 years in Europe, starting with simple trade deals (like NAFTA). They are moving faster over here.

They've already taken away our right to privacy, our right to a fair trial, and our right to free speech. I'm hoping that people will wake up and will rise up when they try and take away the only right we have left, guaranteed by the 2nd ammendment... the right to bear arms.

When they try to take our guns, they will have to pry mine from my cold dead fingers.

Oh, and you can give me all the thumbs down you want. I know you will, because you are all voting for one of the 3 evils. But if you do some investigation, you'll find out I'm right. They are tanking our economy, and Bush has already signed many agreements with Mexico and Canada. Source: http://www.stopspp.com/stopspp/ WAKE UP PEOPLE. They don't tell you this stuff on the idiot box.

They say we should be "scared" of the "terrorists", but they leave our borders wide open. We're all screaming, "no amnesty for the illegals", and every bill they put forward to reform immigration includes amnesty.

Texans are having their land they've owned for 150 years taken away by imminent domain so they can build a NAFTA Superhighway with no border checks until Kansas City.

They're leasing the land to foreigners! To take tolls from Americans!

Texans are hoppin' mad about it too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btewqYiom...

I'm getting sick to my stomach now. I'd better quit typing.

But before I go, I just wanted to remind you...

before Hitler took over Germany, the Germans thought they were free too.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chica...

Wake up America!!

And don't blame me... I voted for Ron Paul.  There are other good choices too, but not the 3 we're gonna end up with.

Answer 29

They don't have the tools for analysis, reason and logic- hence they accept whatever they are told to believe- and become easily controlled by others.

Answer 30

Most people have been 'brainwashed'into what the Government of the day wants them to believe!They follow the government line because they live in hope that life will get better!

Answer 31

we are, I'm afraid, exactly what the powers to be wish us to be. Starting in school, unchecked at home, misinformed everyday, people I believe are confused and frustrated.When our great nation is being sold out from under us in the interest of foreign policy, our dollar being held together with only the stickiness of foreign oil,dangers lurk near we can all see.                                                                     What do we do.....I know I alone can not do much either can you, but maybe,WE THE PEOPLE can as a whole say enough is enough.Squeaky wheel gets the grease,how much time do each of us waste each day on trivial,nonsensical things.Lets all take the time to help each other by helping ourselves.Write kick scream whatever it takes time and again to let our politicians know,WE THE PEOPLE will be heard.