Sheep…

There was this billboard for a newspaper a couple of weeks back that Aaron would have loved. It said, “Repeat after me… ‘I will not be a sheep’” and the picture accompanying it was the bottom half of a bunch of women on a train wearing ugly boots that are really fashionable here. I never got around to getting a picture of it, but it was really great.

It’s true, though. Folks here are such sheep. They want to be lead and told what to do – they don’t want to make the effort or take the risk of thinking for themselves. They want someone else to make decisions so they don’t have to. Let the government take their money and do whatever with it, as long as they have their free, crappy pseudo-healthcare and free public transportation after 65. Truthfully, the same sort of goes for all the extremists and zealots in the US. Everything that happens anywhere has to be examined, one event at a time. Just because George Bush said it doesn’t make it wrong (or right, if you are of that belief). Or just because it is convenient to your lifestyle doesn’t make it right. Or just because it’s easier to make crap up doesn’t make it right. I guess this goes for everywhere, not just the US and the UK.

THINK FOR YOURSELVES, PEOPLE!! Just because mass media says something is, doesn’t mean that it is, whether bent to the liberal or the conservative side!

Which leads to another random thought… {Hold on, I am veering off in a completely unrelated direction…}

Just because you write for Doctor Who does not mean that you can just invent history so that it suits your story. It’s science fiction, I know, but there are idiots out there who believe what they hear. (Remember the JFK load of crap – “Back, and to the left...”? Everyone believed that Kennedy was sitting directly behind Connaly because Oliver Stone said it, so it had to be true…) Anyway, for the future, make up whatever you want, that is perfectly fine. But, when it comes to history, at least do a little research. And shame on Russell T Davies for allowing it!

Okay, that’s it for now… Next time I will try not to just rant after not posting in a week and a half.