I recently visited several airports while traveling to and from Barcelona. After that trip I can no longer deny that people are sheep. I used to think that only some people were sheep, the special kind who need religion or a spouse to make their decisions. No, by default people are sheep. In truth the special kind is the kind that chafes at being treated like fragile, ignorant children. It saddens me that this kind seems to be dwindling. =( And what's more the sheep will put up with more and more just to have daddy tell them they are safe from the monster in the closet. Didn't we grow out of that phase?
"Security" takes more and more ridiculous measures to make people feel safe. It's been shown several times that it has no real effect as far as security. It stops your everyday traveler though, so people feel like surely anybody who actually means harm will be stopped. They're doing something, so it must be safer than it was? People don't stop to question if the extreme measures make sense, they don't want to think.
There has to be a better way, it's almost not worth traveling anymore. But people accept authority, they need it. It frees them from responsibility and from painful thought. They don't have to consider risks, the authorities do it for them, it's all taken care of. So go ahead and
shut down the whole airport because a man was running without permission. Steal things from paying passengers after making them stand in line to let you do it. Disrupt the flow of life, it's ok, we want you to. We're sheep.
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