Sheep Mentality

        My first day of the month quote from Jim Des Soye for November is They're all sheep!

        This is something I first heard when I was very young, still living at the house on Heinrich, and Dad was working as a welder for a company that made heat exchangers. We ate dinner every night as soon as he got home – 5PM. And as Mom and Dad talked at the dinner table, invariably the conversation would include events of Dad's day at work.
         Sometimes he was upset with management, and then he would be irritated with his co-workers for not also being upset enough with management to make some noise with him about it. “They're all sheep!” he would say – a herd blindly following a leader even if they knew where they were going was wrong.
          Sheep did not exist just in the workplace either. Dad felt the same way about politics and pop culture and hype in general.

         The tone of his voice when he said “sheep” made me realize I would not want him to ever think I was one of the sheep.

         This post has now been officially rewritten 4 times and is now officially the one most difficult to have written. I'm going to leave it at this.

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