Let's start with the lawmaker. Historically, lawmakers are the ones born into the royalty or the top clergy. But these days things have changed. Lawmakers range from senators to parliamentarians, from corporate executives to the government officials and from the Pope to a mullah in a remote Pakistani village mosque. Lawmakers are at the top of the food chain. They make laws to protect their own interests and to control the sheep.
Sheep are huge in numbers. This gives them an illusion of being in majority, But sheep are weak. Sheep do exactly what the lawmakers tell them to do. Sheep prides themselves as 'law-abiding citizens'. Sheep do not complain when the lawmaker takes away their warm wool coat and leaves them shivering in the cold. Instead sheep prides themselves for being tax paying citizen. Sheep obeys the lawmaker, all the way to the slaughter house.
There is a small minority within the sheep — 'Troublemakers'. Troublemakers have few strange ideas and tendencies. They are different from the rest of the sheep because of their critical thinking. Troublemakers like to question everything, from laws laid by the lawmakers to the scientific facts declared by the clergy. Somehow troublemakers are not convinced.
Sometimes troublemakers assemble a few lenses and stares at the heavens, and other times troublemakers demands women should have the right to vote. Sometimes troublemakers dare to observe that species have common origins, and then other times they demand children working in coal mines and workers in factories should have rights. Some even challenged slavery. How outrageous! These ideas offend lawmakers, the clergy and sound strange even to the sheep.
Let's take a moment to thank all the troublemakers who stood up against authoritarian thought controlling religions and enslaving lawmakers. Thanks to those troublemakers, today we, the sheep, have some rights, we understand the world and the universe a bit more. Let's take our hats off for troublemakers, such as Charles Darwin, Galileo Galileo, Nelson Mandela and millions others targeted by the church, Islamists and monarchs through the history.
Try not just be a sheep, try to be a troublemaker.