SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS —“Most of us are naturally sheep. Some of us are capable o

SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS

—“Most of us are naturally sheep. Some of us are capable of accepting such a reality. The comparison of humans to sheep is as old as written history, or older. It wasn’t always an insult. It was once the mark of a good and connected ruler to be called a shepherd. The archetype of shepherd and father/patriarch was synonymous.”— Anne Summers

—“The sheep/shepherd model describes a minority upper class ruling a majority underclass with virtually no middle class. in fact, the abundance of a middle class disrupts the stability of this model and naturally, the upper class would prefer to eliminate this instability.”—- George Hobbs

(Pastoralism vs Agrarianism and Domestication)