Baa Baa, Fellow Sheeple
I heard something recently that bothered me in a way that I didn’t really expect. My husband and I were in store and a couple of women were talking to an employee about facial masks. The two women were not wearing masks and the employee told them she agreed with them; she did not ask them to mask up. And the women started going on about how wearing the masks is a “sheep mentality.” You just go with the herd, regardless of facts, and don’t pay attention to anything except fear. And I didn’t say anything to them (because I’m not that person in a store), but I thought of something in my head later. We’re all sheep. We might belong in different parts of the pen, but we’re all sheep. And I wonder what she might have said if I had thought of it then and if I had decided to say it out loud to her. My guess is that it would have started a conflict that ended with me crying tears of frustration in the parking lot later and it wouldn’t have actually changed