Maybe I at too much. Or too little. Either way, I've been procrastinating. Again. As usual.
Anyway, I'd like to make a point here, which is that people are sheep. Figurative sheep, of course, or I would have an over-abundance of lamb chops. They are sheep. They are herd animals. Human society is just comprised of many herds of sheep, all connected to the sheepternet. Sheepyvision, sheepdio, and sheepmail are the only reason that humans appear to be an organised, modern civilisation. The magnitude of the sheepiness of people is so large, so exsheeply sheepy, that the only thing that really separates humans from real sheep is that humans happen to eat real sheep.
I am, of course, trying to say that most people seem to lack the ability to form opinions that matter. Seventy percent of the people in an average lecture theatre do not have opinions that stretch beyond themselves and their own narrow existence. Instead, they are waiting for someone else, someone influential(disregarding the fact that he is a sheep) to come along and give them an opinion. What the opinion pertains to, is not important. Rather, the way it is presented and how well it fits into their sheepy minds without conflicting with other, previously formed(but no less sheepy) opinions.
It matters not that one opinion makes more sense than the other. All it matters is that they share the opinion of the majority. Like a hive mind, only less efficient and more herd-like, than hive-like. As the complexity of each unit increases, so should the entire body. Not in this case, as clearly, a point is eventually reached when each individual unit becomes so complex, that the hive mentality breaks down, turning a complex and efficient social body, into a bunch of sheep.
Thus, we find that while zero opinions contributes to buzzing competency and efficaciousness of a community, a pool of some relevant opinion merely turns it into a goddamn herd of cows. Or sheep. A raised level of awareness, however, allows the productivity of a community to rise inexorably, while still allowing people to retain their sense of individuality.
Until, of course, they form a department where they ask each other "Hey, have you ever wondered if we're all just hallucinating?"
Unfortunately, even people of such raised levels of awareness are still bound by the sheep-laws of biology. We're all part of a massive herd, and are therefore inclined to follow the majority. Try as we might, it is not entirely possible to be of completely independent thought, without being radical. Therefore, it is probably not such a good idea to try to turn the human race into a species of highly aware, thinking individuals. Instead, we should settle for a more energy efficient process; abandoning all sense of self, and working together towards a common goal.
The solution, to turn everyone into cyborgs. If we can't make people not-sheep, then we shall sift out those who are not afflicted with sheeptosis, and make them help the sheep to achieve a higher level of sheepiness. By removing their free will.
I probably shouldn't rule the world. Or should I?
In any case, it's going to happen. One way or another. Prepare to be assimilated.
-Joe