simonineaston wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 2:38pm
Lack arrived by bike – she grew up and still lives nearby – but without a lock, so for a while we wander around looking for a bush big enough to hide her ride.
While I appluad this individual for trying hard to 'make a difference', why is it we appear to need suitable figure-heads to lead our campaigns. Plainer, more ordinary individuals who've been pointing out the increasing risks to do with climate change, deforestation, meat-eating etc. etc. for decades tend to get overlooked.
Or is it just the media that needs the figure-heads and if I care to look hard enough, I'll find all sorts of people, large & small, young & old, from all sort of classes, being carefully listened to and their words taken to heart.
Humans are herd animals - perhaps the herdy-est of the lot! We like to have a member who does the herd-leading even if, Wildebeest-like, the fool takes us all to crocodile creek.
Sometimes we humans go more pack-like, roving about killing & eating with gay abandon. Sometimes we're just a plague, decimating all other consumables about us until they're gone. But whatever groupthink and yobmob mode we adopt, we like to have an instigator, a leader, the self-absorbed eejit who makes the first mad move we then all copy even though something in our self-preservation matrix tries to tell us, "No!".
Some of us like to pretend that we're "individuals". Ha ha ha.
Some like to think we can have "good leaders". Alas, even the best of human intentions come with 99 unintended consequences, at least 80% of which turn out to be tending to the lethal (and not just for we two-legs).
Cugel
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes