Mindless sheep...

[Arachkid]

It is not right to be treated as inferior because of you not wanting to go with the majority.
It's your choice from the beginning, If we were to think of them like religions it would be like a large religion trying to recruit followers from unbelievers or smaller groups. Just say no (to drugs) and exercise your freedom of choice.

 

[krugerrand123]

There are no sheep, there are a lot of people who do not enjoy black ops, it all just depends on yourself.

 

[Irridium]

I'm not a huge fan of the practice of posting images in response to threads, but it's too hard to resist this time.

The moral of the story? You aren't as special as you think you are, and those "mindless sheep" you insist on lumping together are nearly always better people than you give them credit for. In fact, many of them are just like you.

So to answer your question, no. You shouldn't give in and "become a mindless lemming" if that isn't what you want to do. You should live your life on your own terms and stop concerning yourself with the way other people live theirs. Live and let live, you know?

You know, I was going to post that picture.

Anyway, yeah. I agree with the guy above me. We all like to think we're special. And we are. We are each special, unique people. Just like everyone else.

Just live your life the way that makes you happy. How others live theirs and what they do is of no concern to you. Its what I do, and I'm a happy person

 

[krugerrand123]

You either enjoy something or you do not. There are no sheep, everyone is different.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I really, really, really hope this is satire.

They're being aggressive with you for not liking CoD. Judging by the tone of your OP, you probably said something like "Why are you playing CoD, you mindless sheeple. You should play this other game, because I'm better than you." In which case, they would be justified in being aggressive towards you.

Sure, your one friend was a dumbass. The again, it sounds like you were talking over PSN/Live. It's entirely possible he was just exasperated by the fact he had no one to play Black Ops with and sent you a message that was easy to misinterpret. Typing with a controller is hard, so people tend to type whatever makes some sense and send it, rather than making sure the message is clear.

Regardless, liking a game does not make you any kind of sheep. For one thing, sheep are actually quite intelligent. For another, despite your superior attitude, you aren't any better than your friend. Congratulations, you noticed human beings tend to act in certain ways. So has everybody else. You're just as much of a "sheep" as your friend. You just act out of the norm enough to convince yourself you're different.

At least your friend is content. You've managed to convince yourself your different, without being different. Your friend is aware of where he is in life, and has learned to accept it.

If u read the comments in this thread u will know that I dont wish to portray myself as superior, and it is this that is in fact what I am constantly annoyed by. It is the people thinking that they are superior simply because more people like what they like.

Upon re-reading your post, I misread it, and would like to apologize. I read it kind of fast, and missed over a few key parts.

I'm sorry.

It is pretty silly to think that what you like is good merely because it's popular. That said, if something is popular it's probably a fairly decent product, or else has an amazing marketing team.

 

[Ethylene Glycol]

Hello.

WOW YOUR USERNAME IS SO EDGY AND UNIQUE!!!!
Except not at all.
Hi. I'm a *****.

This is my first time I have myself posted on the Escapist's forum, but I have read many of the varying topics on which many Escapists have posted in, and I have noticed in these posts both adept sensitivity and intelligence and what seems to be a complete and utter lack of a frontal lobe. Saying this, I do enjoy reading the posts of many of the forum's users because I find their way with words much more intelectual than that of most of the people I know. This may be simply because I am only 13, and so therefore the people with which I share my life will, clearly, not be as mentally mature as to dicuss such topics in such a manner that is more debate than argument.

You're new to the Internet, aren't you?

However, I am wavering off-topic...

What I wish to discuss in this thread is wether it is the majority of humans who are simply consumer slaves or the minority who have this opinion (myself for one) should simply bay to the ever growing masses.

For example, many of my friends play Call of Duty. And by play, I mean devote their lives to. This does slightly annoy me that these people ignore the more imaginative and inovative areas of the fast-expanding market of games available to them and opt for a repetitive, boring grin of kill, kill, die with the occasional objective and no more variety than so. Now, don't get me wrong, the Call of Duty series is not a bad one, hence its great success, I just simply do not understand why people look on it as a god-send and therefore devote many days of their lives to it.

Like real soldiers, they innately behave in a herdlike manner--but unlike real soldiers, they're either too fat or too cowardly to just join the fucking army.

Ok, they can do what they want with their free time, and I'm cool with that. What I'm not cool with is when they become aggresive towards me for not sharing their views on such games as being divine and worthy of an unhealthy amount of my time.

They're assholes. Find better friends.

This is the question I want you to ask yourselves; Should we all give in to the masses and ourselves become mindless Lemmings ripe for consumery harvesting or should we break away from the expected and do things that may not be looked on as usual? After all, if everyone's doing it, that makes it the best, no?

Discuss :3

No offense, OP, but you are very, very much not the first person to ponder this.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Yes, we should all give into the mindless masses because clearly they have no upper brain functions and simply do what they are told to do. Meanwhile all the geniuses of the world sit on their computers thinking how superior they are on Friday nights.

I like you. Especially for what you got suspended for.

 

[Cerrax]

I'm just happy that Lemmings and Mirror's Edge have been mentioned in this thread Awesome games.

 

[Vryyk]

-snip-

I'll be honest with you here, you'll probably remove the phrase "mindless sheep" from your parlance just as soon as you realize just how much of a tool it makes you sound like.

I don't begrudge you for using it (most developing or pseudo-intellectuals do at a young age), but it is essentially ignorant to think of the vast majority of people as being "drones".

Are there such people? To be certain. But that doesn't entitle one to pass judgment on so many people for the sole purpose of feeding a smug sense of self-superiority. Even if it did, one must decide whether or not such a petty "victory" is worth alienating much of the population (and by extension everything they might potentially offer).

It is often best to judge beings on their own merits rather than an arbitrary benchmark such as mode of speech or manner of dress. One of my (now) closest friends is quite athletic and as such when I was in high school I chose to spurn his offer of friendship for nearly a year.

I did this solely based off of my (flawed) reasoning that someone who had clearly devoted himself to looking good could not possess any redeeming intellectual values. Needless to say, when I finally caved one day I was amazed to find one of the most thoughtful and intelligent people I had ever met. You might call this my "wakeup call".

I hope you will likewise delve a bit deeper into humanity as a whole before you write off yet more individuals who might otherwise enrich your life.

 

[WanderingFool]

But if everyone goes against the "Lemmings practice" wouldnt that make them...

I'm not a huge fan of the practice of posting images in response to threads, but it's too hard to resist this time.

The moral of the story? You aren't as special as you think you are, and those "mindless sheep" you insist on lumping together are nearly always better people than you give them credit for. In fact, many of them are just like you.

So to answer your question, no. You shouldn't give in and "become a mindless lemming" if that isn't what you want to do. You should live your life on your own terms and stop concerning yourself with the way other people live theirs. Live and let live, you know?

Oh, nvm. This sums it up perfectly.

 

[Ashcrexl]

don't even worry about it. unless there some kind of real consequence for not playing black ops (your friend being momentarily disappointed does not count), you can do whatever you bloody want. this applies to everything.

 

[Tharwen]

Hey, you're 13. That's how society works at 13.

If you don't agree with it, you're just a few years ahead of your friends.

 

[feather240]

Whichever one overlaps with what you want to do. The moment you start to avoid things only because other people are doing it you become as bad as the sheeple. Maybe you should rephrase your question?

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Yes, we should all give into the mindless masses because clearly they have no upper brain functions and simply do what they are told to do. Meanwhile all the geniuses of the world sit on their computers thinking how superior they are on Friday nights.

It seems you have misunderstood my opinions. I do not see the "masses" as mindless slaves to the corporational giants, I simply do not understand why some people think that it's ok to have a go at someone simply because they do not share their point of view or that of the majority. I do not find it fair that ingenuity is often denied due to them thinking differently to how someone else and their friends do.

Yeah, bujt alot of the time the majority is right, whilkst it's the intelligentsia that are in desperate need of pruning. And by pruning I mean complete destruction.

I mean lets take Kant's categorical imperative ... something that governs us all (Well, all right thinking individuals). This is something the majority feels is right, and that we as 'mindless sheep' should reaffirm our attachment to a common collective will and good for all Mankind in our daily lives.

Most people (grand majority) are decent, hardworking, affable people. But it's a point in their favour when someone attempts to subvert this nature in favourof someething we knowingly feel is wrong or unjust in civil society. Doesn't work all the time, usually because of nationalism, religion or a collection of the two ... but for most of us in civil society with basic freedoms we understand that a common good is something that can, and should, be above criticism.

Whilst the entire world feared Nuclear holocaust, the most intelligent people in the world helped make nuclear weapons more fearsome ... for example. And as such were universally criticised by the grand majority.

Similarly, the people that worked on Unit 561 during the Japanese occupation of Mainland China ... smartest guys of their generation ... even their own countrymen hated them and the world universally opposed their existence once it became known.

Thinking outside the box of conventional thought is both a blessing and a possible threat for us 'mindless sheep'.

 

[TheStickman]

Take it all in stride.

Or just tell them to piss off.

Either one might work. (Although the second option might get your ass kicked)

And I'm not extremely fond of your name.

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[Josh123914]

Yes, we should all give into the mindless masses because clearly they have no upper brain functions and simply do what they are told to do. Meanwhile all the geniuses of the world sit on their computers thinking how superior they are on Friday nights.

It seems you have misunderstood my opinions. I do not see the "masses" as mindless slaves to the corporational giants, I simply do not understand why some people think that it's ok to have a go at someone simply because they do not share their point of view or that of the majority. I do not find it fair that ingenuity is often denied due to them thinking differently to how someone else and their friends do.

Yeah, bujt alot of the time the majority is right, whilkst it's the intelligentsia that are in desperate need of pruning. And by pruning I mean complete destruction.

I mean lets take Kant's categorical imperative ... something that governs us all (Well, all right thinking individuals). This is something the majority feels is right, and that we as 'mindless sheep' should reaffirm our attachment to a common collective will and good for all Mankind in our daily lives.

Most people (grand majority) are decent, hardworking, affable people. But it's a point in their favour when someone attempts to subvert this nature in favourof someething we knowingly feel is wrong or unjust in civil society. Doesn't work all the time, usually because of nationalism, religion or a collection of the two ... but for most of us in civil society with basic freedoms we understand that a common good is something that can, and should, be above criticism.

Whilst the entire world feared Nuclear holocaust, the most intelligent people in the world helped make nuclear weapons more fearsome ... for example. And as such were universally criticised by the grand majority.

Similarly, the people that worked on Unit 561 during the Japanese occupation of Mainland China ... smartest guys of their generation ... even their own countrymen hated them and the world universally opposed their existence once it became known.

Thinking outside the box of conventional thought is both a blessing and a possible threat for us 'mindless sheep'.

well, ignorance is bliss

 

[feather240]

Take it all in stride.

Or just tell them to piss off.

Either one might work. (Although the second option might get your ass kicked)

And I'm not extremely fond of your name.

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Do you think he's Max?

 

[Souplex]

"Mindless sheep" is such a derogatory term.
They prefer to be called (Insert whatever group you don't like here, for me it's Valve fans)

 

[Canid117]

I'm not a huge fan of the practice of posting images in response to threads, but it's too hard to resist this time.

The moral of the story? You aren't as special as you think you are, and those "mindless sheep" you insist on lumping together are nearly always better people than you give them credit for. In fact, many of them are just like you.

So to answer your question, no. You shouldn't give in and "become a mindless lemming" if that isn't what you want to do. You should live your life on your own terms and stop concerning yourself with the way other people live theirs. Live and let live, you know?

Thank you for showing me my new favorite picture.