Sheeple. People who are led like sheep. I’m learning that some bloggers are sheeple. Some are down right cult dwellers.
I had thought bloggers were just people looking for some entertainment in the middle of a workday, but clearly some folks are looking for a life line, permission to feel okay about who they are. A leader who tells them they are acceptable.
I understand people like to have a sense of belonging, but what I’m witnessing in parts of blogland has to be unhealthy. It’s scary to realize how crazy people are. How easily led. I’m guessing some folks who are socially inept in real life, can feel accepted in cyber world and they like belonging to something.
I’ve heard on a few ocassions that Jonestown- led by Jim Jones- was part of a government experiment. You have to wonder why the government would allow welfare checks to be shipped to Guyana. The experiement was to see how easily people would join a cult.
Well who knew you could lead people over the internet and through a blog? People assume they wouldn’t have drunk the kool-aid in Jonestown, but it doesn’t start with the poison drink, it begins with small agreements, small promises, small assurances by the leader and trusting that the leader would never lead you in the wrong direction.
The need to belong is also what makes the cult dwellers dangerous. They are willing to do whatever to maintain that feeling of belonging. Sometimes its best to be okay as an individual and not only as a member of a group/clique/cult.