Herd everywhere is a threat to
humanity everywhere. Systems that degrades
humans into unthinking entities who are then readied to be manipulated, used
against every notion of being human, is persistent danger to life and to all
living being. A dehumanized human is a tragedy on humanity. An emasculated
human has lost the faculty that makes him or her human. As they spread they
negate all the consolidated knowledge and understanding through the ages as
also pose serious impediment to contemporary and future understanding and challenges.
Herds are more than just passive animals but a serious threat not only to human
progress but survival itself. Herd is an infection that systematically invades
the mind making it useless.
Systems that create and nurture herds
whether its religion, cult, traditions, feudal norms or market or insular ideologies,
persistently undermine freethinking, egalitarian references, humanist contexts,
anything that encourages inquisitiveness and critical thinking. Such systems
are incapacitated to have compassion or nurture any nuanced values. They
produce humans with sedated senses incapable to connect to their surroundings
or any reality nor aware of their unique context. An unexamined life is
grievously inept to examine the surrounding nor anticipate the future or
potentials for learning herein. Their life is hinged to fate of the herd and blessing
of the agency that control. These are carbon units with no potential or hope
except as enthusiastic herd member. They are biomass that encroaches and
degrades biodiversity, the habitat and finally the earth system. They are
gangrene on earth. It is also important to identify herd controllers –who seek
and encourage herds and work to manipulate. Herd matters as it is not about
humans but numbers. In democracy numbers matters as voters which consolidates
power hence control, for religions numbers are about followers or devotees,
more followers means power and clout as also initiative to spread and garner
strength while for market numbers is consumers which converts to money and
clout. In recent times societies across the world have degraded as urgency of
virtual connection have provided platform for these to consolidate. What was
supposed to be means to evolve has become end in itself to rot the core.
Ofcourse these vary with societies, those lacking civilized bearings
deteriorate faster. What is certain though is herd controllers are inching into
space of humanity at a rapid rate. They diminish egalitarian value systems and
decimate hopes of progress. Promise of education is reduced to curriculums of
followers and replicators, answering machines vomiting memories of mythical
glories, rotting minds as guide into dark alleys of future. Education is a strategy to multiply money and
power. Youngsters get trained into herd quite easily having apprenticed in
deviant families with parasitic relations. Lack of investment in education,
substandard education system churning out amazingly focused herds, all these are
hallmarks of herd controllers. Herd controllers make herds happy and contented.
Carefully trained in myths of grandeur herds are eased into fantasy.
Politicians tell them what they want to hear. Market feed them with inane
entertainments of self-fulfillment as also framework of juvenilities of
achievements that further sedates their unthinking minds. Religion assures
their unexamined selves as blessing while presenting the slave minded with
steps to glory. Since future is perilous, insecure, and are incapable to even
fathom any hint of, reality is obfuscated with glories of past. Make it great
again. Unavoidable bleak future that barge in as daily tragedies of woefully
lacking society is delegated onto individuals as fate. When humanity is reduced
to herd when humans are reduced to numbers it is but natural that deaths are
just statistics which can be manipulated. The herds therefore don’t even get
sanctity of numbers. They are nothing. They are kept insecure so as to become
fatalist, kept occupied in their self-defeating grinding chores which are made
much difficult in a combination of incompetence and apathy while herds are also kept in constant strife. Very soon they learn to pay obeisance
to the oppressive system and work to perpetuate it. If they are sufficiently
clever they understand the deceptiveness of herd controllers and with blessing
of the system can upgrade to become sought after herd controllers. Market actively nurture these
template for herd controllers, nowadays they are called influencers. An evolved
person of subtlety, exposed to excellence, essentially compassionate nature,
will rarely fall for herd controllers nor will aspire to be one and with his or
her sensibility can only pity herds. They know it is a loss of humanity. The reason
why herd controllers actively work to degrade the system, as also define the
success as an extension of herd aspiration. Non thinking frames like crass entertainment,
sports so on becomes sought after mechanism for herd controlling. So on the one
side excellence of sports or art become competitive exhibitionism of market and
hedonistic aspiration for herds like in US while it is reduced to games of manipulation
to stampede for gravy in extremely mediocrity thriving societies like India –where
these so-called sportspersons and artists having filled their coffer by titillating
the herds in a egoistic drive aspire to influence policy making. A crude world
of herd controllers coalesces through crony capitalism, nepotism, deviant traditions
and values to create a much dangerous world. Herd controllers will go to any
extend to keep the world in their sinister grip. Every innovative idea becomes
potential for manipulation while the latest gadgets an instrument of intrusion
and control. Herd controllers persistently squeeze the humanity out of herds
leaving them as vulnerable pitiable carbon units waiting to release their carbon
as redemption for better afterlife, ironically having wasted their present life
but under the compelling illusion of having lived fulfilling life as herd member.
Carbon is carbon. It doesn’t have afterlife. Herds live and die in their fantasy.
Sometimes it is helpful as an individual but the problem is when these coalesce
into herds and into rigid frames of dealings that is actively controlled.
As much as climate change or climate breakdown is immediate existential threat herds too are equally debilitating and imminent danger to humanity. Challenges faced by humanity whether its climate change, pandemic or violence gets accentuated in direct proportion of herd spread. Herd is a waste of life. They are an insult on being human, an embarrassment on humanity and a threat on existence.
