circle work

Bringing a mob of sheep into the yards thismorning, I was thinking that society is very like a mob of sheep. Everybody is running around in circles, we have a vague notion that we don’t want to go in a particular direction and when a few start to lead; a bloody dog appears from nowhere and frightens the b-jesus out of us and we end up inexorably moving towards the gate and then through it and find ourselves in the yard with no choice at all about what happens next.