Pack versus Herd

KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau

Came across this while reading Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope from Lockdowns to Concentration Camps by John & Nisha Whitehead

“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers.” - Rod Serling, Deaths-Head Revisited*

Not too long ago the morons were busy toppling statues because of all the awful 'crimes' those people had committed in the past. One of my kids opined that we shouldn't celebrate Columbus Day because Columbus was such a bad person. While most working people will celebrate having any kind of day off from work, not all of the Federal holidays are to celebrate an event, some are just to commemorate one.

Pack-mentality and herd-mentality are very similar. 'Herd' is usually used to describe a group sheep or cattle. 'Pack' is used almost exclusively to describe a group of wolves. To me, Herd-mentality implies the inclination to go along with the herd, pack-mentality means being an enthusiastic participant in the group's activities. Herds band together for protection, packs act in unison for aggression. It doesn't take much to turn a herd of humans into a pack looking for a victim.

We may have turned the corner on the COVID Panic. Denmark and the UK have recently relaxed their draconian rules. Of course, other places, like Italy, are tightening the screws. People really need something else to worry about. That might be the reason for beating the war drums over Russia and Ukraine. We don't really care about the Ukraine, we just need something to distract the morons from their head long plunge into insanity.

* Rod Serling was the host of The Twilight Zone, and Deaths-Head Revisited was one episode. The quote is from the closing narration.

Via ZeroHedge. I read it on Feedly, which eliminates most of the ads.