Outcasts and Wreckers
26th November 2018
Sarah Hoyt has some insight.
The goats are needed because the sheep are too social. I don’t know if it’s true they’ll follow their leader over a cliff, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Sheep ain’t too smart.
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But when you put this on a national scale, it’s a terrible thing. We’ve seen exactly how horrible it is over things like the Cultural Revolution, or under Stalin, or for that matter under Hitler, or, in a smaller scale — it was a smaller time — the French revolution. Because people will do horrible or destructive things rather than buck the group under any circumstances.