Good Sheep

“HOW TO become a good sheep!
A 10-Step Program for surrendering freedom with style!
THE guide to blissful submission of thinking and yourself!”

A satire post with dark humor about how the “powerful” keep you numb, grey and way easier to control, sprinkled with a little sarcasm to hopefully inspire some reflections.

“Thinking is hard. Why not outsource it and leave it to us?”

Or as WICKED sang it perfectly:
🎶 Dancing through life, skimming the surface, gliding where turf is smoote.
Life’s more painless for the brainless – Why think too hard, when it’s so soothing? 🎶

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Featured Image 2025 © Lunareth

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🏷️ Tags and Trigger Warning: Sensitive Topics – please read with care. This post is written as (Political) Satire and has mentions of authoritarianism, propaganda, censorship, as well as references to oppression, burnout and surveillance. Also little bit of critical tone toward power and themes of dehumanization (“sheep”, “slaughter”).

🕯️ Disclaimer

The story below reflects my personal thoughts, emotions and experiences. It is not meant to place blame or assign judgment, but to offer understanding, invite reflection and remind others that they are not alone. My intention is never to hurt or accuse, only to shed light on what we often carry, the mistakes we make while trying to live and the possibility that healing begins with honesty.

Everything I share here is personal, never professional advice. These are fragments of my journey, offered with three hopes:

1. That someone reading might feel a little less alone — and a little more understood, even comforted.
2. That someone reading might discover a new idea, or at least a spark of clarity, bringing them one step closer to a “better” tomorrow, one day at a time.
3. That even someone in a completely different situation might find the words speaking to them, maybe as inspiration for understanding or at least some food for thought.

Thank you for reading with compassion.

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… before we begin …

Let’s get real.
I’ll be clear: this post is supposed to be funny, yes, but it’s not just for laughs.
Because the moment you stop asking questions, the moment you say:
“I’m too tired to care” or you just stopped caring – that’s the moment they win.

You’re not lazy.
You’re exhausted – on purpose.
You’re overwhelmed – by design.

This post is a nudge.
A wake-up call wrapped in satire.
Because awareness is the first step.
And if you’ve still got a flicker of it left, then you’re not too far gone.

But if you’re too tired to live?
To think? To choose?
Then you’ve already become the perfect sheep.
Soft. Silent. And ready for slaughter.

🐑 How to be a Good Sheep 🐑

A totally helpful guide for anyone wishing to surrender all autonomy and critical thinking!

• 1. Stop Educating Yourself

Why fill your brain with confusing facts, multiple perspectives or philosophical nuance?
Why even try to find out the facts and check behind information?
Let us decide what’s real!

Curiosity killed the cat — and we can’t have you poking around, now can we?
It’s too complicated anyway. You wouldn’t understand.
Don’t ask why. Don’t ask how. Be good.

Just smile and wave, people, smile and wave.

Books are for cringe nerds. Burn them with pride.
Especially the ones with nuance, context, or — heavens forbid:
different ideas and something disgusting like imagination.
They only make things complicated.
Better to just scroll headlines and move on.

“I don’t know, let’s find out” is for rebels. Stay safe: stay stupid.

• But actually?

Destroying access to education and diversified information limits your ability to question.
It narrows the mind into obedience and fear.
If you can’t even check the facts or find information,
how would you even begin to question … or know something different is even possible?

It’s easy … you don’t.

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• 2. Watch Only Approved Channels

All those overwhelming, messy news outlets?
Chaos!
Stick to the one true narrative — it’s safer!
We tell you what matters and who to blame.

Trust the Feed.
The algorithm knows best.
If it repeats it enough, it must be true, right? Right?

Never, ever choose for yourself.
Let others tell you what’s right and wrong.
What to want. Who to be.
It’s so much more relaxing that way, isn’t it?

• But actually?

State-controlled media means you no longer think, just absorb.
It turns politics into performance, not accountability.

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• 3. Snitch On Your Neighbours

Who needs trust or community when you can feel morally superior by reporting wrong thinking?
Big Brother loves tattletales.

Be ashamed of caring too much – don’t you dare be a Karen by accident!

Compassion is flinch.
Empathy? Weakness.
Just keep your head down and let the world burn — it’s not your business anyway.

• But actually?

Surveillance society destroys community.
When fear replaces connection, unity is impossible.
Isolation is a powerful weapon because it’s torture.
Just the fear of solitude is often enough to keep people in line.
If people already are terrified of each other … there is barely strength for resistance.

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• 4. Fear Art. Hate Beauty – Censor Everything

What if a painting makes you feel something?
Gross.
Stick to bland, pre-approved content.
Art that stirs the soul is a threat to order.

Mock the Dreamers.
Hope is for the naïve.
People who chase joy are immature.
Adults should be practical, grey and quietly miserable.

• But actually?

Art ignites empathy and critical thought.
Censoring art is censorship of the heart.

Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know.

That’s the best way to snuff any ideas of change.

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• 5. Merge State With God

Only one belief. One way. One truth.
We know the one true faith.
All others? Dangerous.
Your faith now wears a uniform.

• But actually?

Authoritarianism thrives on binary thinking – good vs evil, us vs them.
Spirituality becomes a tool for control.

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• 6. Distrust Experts

Why listen to scientists?
They use data.
All lies!
If facts don’t match the narrative, delete them.

Accept That the System Is Fine.
Don’t fix a working wheel!
Yes, it’s broken. But shhh.
Don’t rock the boat.
You’ll only make it worse.
Sit still and be grateful how it works.

• But actually?

Suppressing expertise ensures solutions are replaced with slogans.

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• 7. Crush Dissent Before It Starts

Silence is golden.
So is submission.
Say nothing. Want nothing. Be good.

Obey the One Truth.
Whatever the dominant voice says — repeat it.
And repeat it louder, just in case someone hears your doubt.

• But actually?

Democracy dies not with violence, but with silence.
Not that democracy doesn’t have flaws, then again: nothing is perfect.
And a not so perfect democracy like the EU is still better then the alternative in my book.
I won’t name countries, but look east of Europe or that one country north in Asia.
With dictators and authoritary state that is the alternative.

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• 8. Keep People Desperate

A hungry and struggling citizen is a quiet citizen.
Let them worry about rent, food and survival,
about getting or keeping a job, not rights.
Stress and Struggle replaces Revolution.

• But actually?

Economic instability ensures people are too exhausted to fight back.
The big excuse in my eyes is: “It’s there!”
In theory the support might be there, by law, so the state is safe.
But the truth in my book?

You have to jump through thousands of hoops and deal with countless documents
and government agencies, only to be rejected anyway.
Because … reasons.
But it’s there! Theoretically.

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• 9. Blame The “Others”

Every empire needs a scapegoat.
The Immigrants. The Queers. The Poor. The Disabled. The Unemployed.
Take your pick!
Division keeps us distracted.

Despise the Different.
Diversity? Art? Sexuality? Identity?
Too complicated. Too loud. Too not what you’re supposed to be.
Much easier to erase it than understand or accept it.

• But actually?

Hatred is the oldest political trick in the book – and the most effective.
If people are busy fighting each other, nobody is fighting the ones in power.

Just as with spirituality – binary thinking is good for state business.
You alienate or antagonise the “others” – then it’s easy to convince:
They are the enemies! Not us! We only want your best!

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• 10. Kill Joy – Literally

Dancing? Gone.
Laughter? Dangerous.
Compassion? Weakness.
Games? Hazardous.
Everything must fit in that one, pre-made and pre-approved box.
A numb nation is a manageable nation.

Forget How to Say No.
To jobs that break you, to work that grinds your soul into dust.
To systems that exploit you, that sell your silence.
To people who smile while they hurt you in the name of righteousness.
Learn to say “yes” with a smile… even as your soul quietly dies.

• But actually?

Joy is resistance.
Connection is power.
Empathy is the antidote.
Because where is hope … there is a chance.

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For the good girls and good boys out there~

Keep your eyes down.
Swallow your rage.
Forget the stars.
Trust the shepherds.

Or…

Refuse the grey.
Feed your fire.
Ask questions.
Fall in love with joy and looking behind the curtain again.
Think and choose for yourself, because it’s your life.

🧠 BONUS: Knowledge is Power
… but QUESTIONS are Freedom 🧠

Here’s the thing: if you’ve made it this far — you’re not a sheep.

You’re asking questions.
You’re thinking.
You’re choosing to read, even in your exhaustion.
Even in the grey.

Because deep down?
You know the truth:

You don’t have to memorize 100,000 facts to be educated and smart.
You just have to dare ask 100,000 questions and keep asking until you find the right one.

• ✨ “Why?”
• ✨ “How?”
• ✨ “Is this right?”
• ✨ “Who benefits?”

My most favourite: ✨ “What if?”

There are no stupid questions.
Only stupid answers, because even those can teach you something.

The real magic is this:
Saying “I don’t have answers yet – let’s try get them!” is not a sign of ignorance.
It’s a sign of critical thinking.
Of curiosity.
Of being awake.
Of being smart.

Education is not just absorbing data. Knowledge is not about memorization.
It’s training your brain to see patterns – to connect, reflect and decide.
It’s the act of learning to think for yourself.
Learning isn’t elitism.
It’s not about being “better” or “smarter”.
It’s about having the freedom to choose.
To know what’s right and wrong for yourself.
To know what you stand for.
To know what you stand against.

Not because you’re told.
But because you understand enough.
Because you asked.

Because in the end?

Because whether you do something… or do nothing
like asking questions or accepting a situation
All is still a choice, your choice.

A choice between grey comfort and vivid, messy freedom.
A choice between silence and spark.
A choice between the numb path …
or the one where you might just dance – and fail forward 🦊💖

🖋️ This has been a Public Service Announcement from The Tea Party (no political inclination).