Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

CLUELESS
Heading for the knackers yard on Animal Farm and trying to make sense
of how the immoral, but sadly generally accepted ’four legs good, two
legs better’ motto still flies from humanity’s masthead.
When you look around, in a crowd … or at a world through the selective
lens of the media, or maybe through the fog of anothers’ myopic
worldview, you may glimpse reality. Sometimes, because it corresponds
to our preferences and prejudices, we will unquestionably accept these
nuggets and flashes, and then assemble them in some recognisable
order to make sense of their obvious disorder. Our worldview is the
product of all kinds of information within our grasp, tainted and
corrupted as some of it surely is, we may still reach conclusions which
inform our actions … or inaction.
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Artwork: unknown
Unconsciously simplifying our acquired worldview to fit one of the
variously sanctioned streams of official hogwash we will present our face
to the world, sometimes going along with a contrariness because of a
‘democratic’ ideal that we may even know will not apply to all. For, unless
you own or control parts of the media, or have managed to build up a
following of like-minded morphs, our views will be insignificant … an
irrelevance … the big questions just seem to be, are we ‘for or against’,
and there is no place for ‘what about?’ troublemakers.
SEPTEMBER 2016