jester wrote:I forget where I first saw this, but I think of it whenever someone talks about being a sheepdog.
LOL! I think of the children's rhyme when I hear the word sheeple.
Here is the church and here is the sheeple
Open the doors and see all the people...
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. -St. Augustine We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lots of good points as well as good points of view in this thread.
I'll add my own: I detest the term "sheeple" for the reasons that have already been stated. I agree that substituting "living in condition white" (assuming the audience knows what that means) is a superior descriptor.
I believe it is a superior descriptor because it is likely to be inferred by those labeled "sheeple" that sheeple are both willfully ignorant and incapable of change.
"Living in condition white" is a behavior, which is changeable.
"Sheeple" is something you are; "Living in condition white" is something you do. The implication is that you can change what you do, but not necessarily what you are. Therefore, it is much less damning when the latter descriptor is used, as it describes a temporary and changeable behavior rather than the implied permanent condition of being "a sheeple".
"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready." -- Teddy Roosevelt
