Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Lemmings are small short-tailed furry-footed rodents found in sub-arctic areas, notable for recurrent desperate and mindless mass migrations. Once a mass migration has been triggered, the lemmings begin swarming over boulders, around trees, over cliffs (to their death), and will ultimately encounter a body of water they cannot swim across which leads to their mass drownings. There is no evidence that lemmings are suicidal; instead, their survival instinct overrules all other considerations. Lemmings are the locusts of mammals, and as they swarm, they will strip a habitat bare.
In humans, lemming-like behavior which leads to ultimate self-destruction can be seen in times of fear and panic. Riots and Lynch Mobs are examples of humans abandoning any reasoning, any logic, and any common sense. Facts and reality cannot penetrate the behavior of humans when they are in the throes of this lemming-like panic.
Lemmings’ behavior is triggered by natural occurrences, like when rapid over-population results from continuous breeding (a natural instinct to counter losses to predators), which then leads to decimated food sources, and finally a mad blind rush for survival.
In humans, fear and panic can be manufactured by forces hoping to increase power, and often the resulting chaos works to the advantage of those seeking to consolidate power. Structure, stability, laws, due process, and other guard-rails of a civil society stand in the way of those seeking the power to do “whatever they want” to establish total control.
This is not theoretical; there are many examples in history of when populations have been manipulated into abandoning order and stability out of fear and even hatred of “others” depicted as being “the problem.” A ‘leader’ will claim that “ONLY I” can solve the problems a society faces, and helpfully that ‘leader’ will list what exactly the population should be existentially “AFRAID” of.
America is currently being bombarded with fears and hatreds that ONLY a ‘strong leader’ can identify and ‘solve’ (so we are told). It’s immigrants, it’s schools and universities, it’s ALL our world allies, it’s ALL foreign powers (excepting, curiously, Russia), it’s government bureaucracies and an alleged “deep state,” it’s “too much” regulation, it’s gays and trans people, it’s courts and judges and law enforcement who interfere with the ‘leader’ in his quest for omniscient power, it’s agitators claiming to want equal rights, it’s egg-headed Know-It-Alls wanting to “tell you what to do,” it’s science, it’s government social programs providing health care and fighting poverty, it’s media that questions the edicts of ‘the leader.’
It’s easier to identify who IS NOT the enemy to be hated and feared: ONLY the ‘leader’ and his cronies are to be believed without question and obeyed, their transgressions against law and order and our Constitution ignored and forgiven.
Lemmings follow natural instinct. Humans exhibiting lemming-like behavior are reacting to manufactured fears and hatreds. Seriously, is your very existence threatened by a trans kid participating in sports somewhere? Do you even KNOW of a trans kid participating in sports? Yet, the headlong rush to plunge over a cliff is the same.
In a human society, we should be able to recognize true threats versus manufactured fears. A collapsing stock and bond market is REAL. Wholesale violations of law, exposed by dozens of court findings against the ‘leader’ and his actions, those are REAL. WARS, promised to be ended on “day one” persisting, that’s REAL. Increasing consumer prices promised to be lowered on “day one,” which continue to increase … that’s REAL. Sending protected immigrants and even citizens to foreign gulags without any due process or even any charges made, that’s REAL (and could be the future for ANY of us).
We’re HUMANS, not lemmings. Our nation has not fallen off the cliff … yet.
It’s past time to STOP being small furry mindless rodents.
Jeff Harrison Buffalo
