kelley
As y'all might (or might not!) remember a mini-thread on "sheeple" before on lbo-talk, I just did a google search on the word. The word is quite popular among the militia/constitutionalist crowd. Alot of these hits are new from the last time I looked. http://www.google.com/search?q=sheeple&btnG=Google+Search http://www.logophilia.com/WordSpy/sheeple.html sheeple, noun People who are meek, easily persuaded, and tend to follow the crowd (sheep + people). "Plenty of powerful people like to think of the public this way, a nation of Teletubbies who need to be told what matters. But to be polite, they call us soccer mom, Joe Six-pack, the common man, consumers, viewers or the average person.
With the patronizing tone and context, they might as well say Teletubbies. Or they could switch to the hip new term for a malleable public that is supposedly unaware of the world around them: sheeple." —Susan Nielsen, "Power to the Sheeple; Smarter Than You Think," The Seattle Times
Heh, it's been about a year since I was in Seattle. "Hip new term" ? Well, I haven't heard the twentysomethings with body piercings yakking loudly on their cell phones who work at (or worked at) dot.coms utter the word while swilling lattes here in S.F...yet... Michael Pugliese