The sheep has been much maligned in contemporary discourse, cast as the epitome of docile stupidity. Yet, for thousands of years, the sheep has been a symbolically complex animal: singular and plural, first and last, peaceful and bellicose, naive and cunning, submissive and independent, cautious and impulsive, sacred and profane. What better creature to encapsulate our aspirations?
Anyone interested in improving the welfare of humanity.
Are we the paschal lamb? The satanic ram? Khnum the Divine Potter and Source of the Sacred Nile?
No, we’re secular sheeple. If there are any deities out there, we really don’t care. That said, we are students of religion and religiosity – not so much their specific content as their internal structures, social functions, historical constitutions, political implications, and so on. If we say things that sound religious, there are probably two basic reasons why. Either, we’re trying to make a moral argument, or we are consciously attempting to use the basic structures of religiosity in order to drive collective actions with moral ends.
That’s difficult to answer. Extremes exist at both ends of any continuum – this is obvious – but in the political spectrum, centrism also has its extreme adherents. What’s more, spectrums shift, and what is centrist today might tomorrow be considered left, or right, or both, depending on the place and the observer. So, to give a strong answer regarding our political leanings would be to deny (a) the diversity of opinion and experience which we comprise, and (b) the simple fact that both we and the world will change, and not necessarily in accord.
But, for the meantime, here is a list (non-exhaustive) of people we consider enemies of humanity.
Probably. But do you really know what that even means?
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