Elta
我不会把这种
As much as I am fond of using the term Sheeple, I don't think she are accurate in relation to human group behavior.
Sheep are generally easily trained because of their natural fear of predators and the herder and dogs are able to work together to keep them under control.
To a degree I think there are fair analogies you could use to compare them to humans, but when people get riled up (Especially in a country as relatively well off as the U.S.) it reminds me more of locust.
Usually if times are good their is a stable level of grasshoppers in a given area. If times are really good they begin to breed quickly and begin to become overcrowded. At this point the molt and their metamorphosis into locust starts. They then eat everything in site and destroy their former habitat and move to new grounds, eventually when they are satisfied they all calm down.
Strangely enough when they are satisfied they are incredibly passive and just wait to die. I've lived in Vegas my whole life and seen 3 locust swarms, they always come in from Pahrump after a particularly wet summer - they destroy the corn and triticale then move on to the westside of Vegas to rest. They move to Vegas because it is significantly more humid than the surrounding desert because of the lawns and trees that would not occur in the surrounding desert, the females then plant their eggs in the soil.
After being full and having their eggs planted they become extremely docile and only very loud noises spook them, they completely coat the ground and you able to walk over them and kill them without them so much as even flinching. When I was a kid I must have killed thousands of them on day at the go-cart track.
Anyway- What does this have to do with people?
When agitated for whatever reason people will respond to group mentality even if it is destructive overall to their habitat in the long term.
Bankers will take risky derivative bets and play with all of our money for their own profit even at the risk of destroying the economy so long as they come out on top. (Risky Derivatives)
Rioters (Specifically multiday riots like Brixton '81, Los Angeles 92, France 09, London '11 etc not just a bunch of drunk people after a sporting event or concert)
Will typically destroy their own "environment" - neighborhoods. Usually the knee jerk reaction from people who are either oblivious or unsympathetic to what caused the riot is "look at these fools destroying their own neighborhoods" while it is a fair assessment and there always are opportunistic jerks who will take advantage of the madness and loot random places for sport, the general "theme" of a riot is "F this everything, I am destroying everything and stabbing a cop or two because they maintain the rules while I am at it" More over "Society is okay with this? (This being, whatever caused the riot - and or police attacking the peaceful protesters protesting the state action)" The poor and powerless kids (usually males) then go out and cause mayhem in droves in a general poorly thought out attempt to damage "everything" because they disagree with "the system".
While they are destroying "their own neighborhood" most of the rioters own nothing and would have the best chance of "coming up" if everything was destroyed.
I am not saying I approve of riots, but next time a bunch of angry poor people protest the state by trying to run amok ask yourself, "who benefits most and who benefits least from the status quo?" Despite the fact that wealthy people think they are "Completely self made by the power of my gonads and boot straps" and the fact of the matter is no matter which way you slice it they are benefiting the most from the current structure of whatever society they are in, which is of course a one of hundreds of good argument for a progressive tax system - but I won't go there for now. My main point is that of course rich people don't go off and destroy everything, they own everything.
Anyway - running back to the locus theme the locust having destroyed their environment and moving on is much like poor people being dissatisfied by the state or agitated by police after a peaceful protest.
After a riot is quelled the poor usually poorly educated people just like well feed locust just kind of roll over and die politically speaking. - Although in humans it is typically the threat of state sponsored violence
tl;dr version: In a lot situations I think humans react more like Locust than sheep when in swarms if piss them off. Although a lot of times group mentality is looking for reforms instead of violence, the police can easily overstep it's bounds repeatedly and get away with it over and over again in a protest, this is typically what causes the violence.
- Also I am bored at work on a friday so, I am aware that there is an assload of holes in this theory, but meh.
Sheep are generally easily trained because of their natural fear of predators and the herder and dogs are able to work together to keep them under control.
To a degree I think there are fair analogies you could use to compare them to humans, but when people get riled up (Especially in a country as relatively well off as the U.S.) it reminds me more of locust.
Usually if times are good their is a stable level of grasshoppers in a given area. If times are really good they begin to breed quickly and begin to become overcrowded. At this point the molt and their metamorphosis into locust starts. They then eat everything in site and destroy their former habitat and move to new grounds, eventually when they are satisfied they all calm down.
Strangely enough when they are satisfied they are incredibly passive and just wait to die. I've lived in Vegas my whole life and seen 3 locust swarms, they always come in from Pahrump after a particularly wet summer - they destroy the corn and triticale then move on to the westside of Vegas to rest. They move to Vegas because it is significantly more humid than the surrounding desert because of the lawns and trees that would not occur in the surrounding desert, the females then plant their eggs in the soil.
After being full and having their eggs planted they become extremely docile and only very loud noises spook them, they completely coat the ground and you able to walk over them and kill them without them so much as even flinching. When I was a kid I must have killed thousands of them on day at the go-cart track.
Anyway- What does this have to do with people?
When agitated for whatever reason people will respond to group mentality even if it is destructive overall to their habitat in the long term.
Bankers will take risky derivative bets and play with all of our money for their own profit even at the risk of destroying the economy so long as they come out on top. (Risky Derivatives)
Rioters (Specifically multiday riots like Brixton '81, Los Angeles 92, France 09, London '11 etc not just a bunch of drunk people after a sporting event or concert)
Will typically destroy their own "environment" - neighborhoods. Usually the knee jerk reaction from people who are either oblivious or unsympathetic to what caused the riot is "look at these fools destroying their own neighborhoods" while it is a fair assessment and there always are opportunistic jerks who will take advantage of the madness and loot random places for sport, the general "theme" of a riot is "F this everything, I am destroying everything and stabbing a cop or two because they maintain the rules while I am at it" More over "Society is okay with this? (This being, whatever caused the riot - and or police attacking the peaceful protesters protesting the state action)" The poor and powerless kids (usually males) then go out and cause mayhem in droves in a general poorly thought out attempt to damage "everything" because they disagree with "the system".
While they are destroying "their own neighborhood" most of the rioters own nothing and would have the best chance of "coming up" if everything was destroyed.
I am not saying I approve of riots, but next time a bunch of angry poor people protest the state by trying to run amok ask yourself, "who benefits most and who benefits least from the status quo?" Despite the fact that wealthy people think they are "Completely self made by the power of my gonads and boot straps" and the fact of the matter is no matter which way you slice it they are benefiting the most from the current structure of whatever society they are in, which is of course a one of hundreds of good argument for a progressive tax system - but I won't go there for now. My main point is that of course rich people don't go off and destroy everything, they own everything.
Anyway - running back to the locus theme the locust having destroyed their environment and moving on is much like poor people being dissatisfied by the state or agitated by police after a peaceful protest.
After a riot is quelled the poor usually poorly educated people just like well feed locust just kind of roll over and die politically speaking. - Although in humans it is typically the threat of state sponsored violence
tl;dr version: In a lot situations I think humans react more like Locust than sheep when in swarms if piss them off. Although a lot of times group mentality is looking for reforms instead of violence, the police can easily overstep it's bounds repeatedly and get away with it over and over again in a protest, this is typically what causes the violence.
- Also I am bored at work on a friday so, I am aware that there is an assload of holes in this theory, but meh.
