My WND Technocracy column this week concerns the parable of the ant and the grasshopper.

To sheeple, what they feel supersedes reality. Sheeple’s emotions, their wishful thinking, has been substituted for an objective recognition of what truly is. Sheeple will speak loudly and proudly about how they’ve never felt the need to be armed, or never felt the need to prepare or train for self-defense, or perhaps how they’ve never felt “unsafe” even in dangerous areas. What’s more, they’ll project their wishful thinking onto others, concluding that armed citizens (those wacky conservatives and libertarians especially) are “fearful.” You see, sheeple are what firearms guru Jeff Cooper characterized as non-copers. They resent and fear copers, those who are more capable and better prepared than the sheeple. Considering someone else’s superior preparation makes the sheeple confront the conflict between what they wish to believe and what truly is – producing the uncomfortable sensation that is cognitive dissonance.

Read the entire column here at WorldNetDaily.