Sheep or wolf?

 If you are a good person, then you are most likely also not very smart. Smarter people around you will continue to take advantage of your goodness to get their work done. 

So you are either a sheep or a wolf. If you are a sheep then wolves will keep on exploiting you, and if you are a wolf, you will have to keep on exploiting sheep; but if you are a smart wolf, the sheep won't even know that they are being used. Infact most sheep don't even know that they are sheep, or that wolves exist. 

Even among wolves, survival is hardly easy. It is hard to find a sheep who is not already being taken advantage of by someone. Once you are a wolf, it is almost impossible to go back to working hard. So you are actually dependent on finding prey. Even though a wolf is usually smarter than its prey, it is actually weaker in the sense that it is purely dependent on the mercy of its prey to sustain it.

It is far more prevalent to find wolves among the female population. Females have a natural strength in matters of head than their counterparts. They outlive males in most cases, having the last laugh. They also employ other tools to their advantage like playing victim, wooing rituals, etc.

Over the years great wolves have created tools to make their path easy. These tools are known by various names in different cultures like religion, morality, ethics, love etc. They serve wolves by creating a false sense of security and righteousness among sheep. Sheep are creatures of herd, they can thus be controlled better by a mass media tool like religion, which has organized setups like communal festivals and venues of worship. Sheep feel comfort in numbers. They can even bear suffering if it is done in a community or justified in the form of an eventual 'day of reckoning'. Wolves, on the other hand, will only band together when they find a common enemy or prey.

Sheep can also turn into wolves. They can do so by a combination of good luck in matters of brain and opportunity. Infact turning a sheep into a wolf is one of nature's ways to balance scales.

It is not uncommon to find wolves preying on sheep among dysfunctional families, causing an 'influence cycle' which turns many sheep into wolves. Many families are inherently wolfish; in such families the weaker members often face difficulties in growing up, causing them to become even more aggressive to the outside world.

Transformation between the two forms is a one way process. With an increased focus in general human ambition and evolution, the wolfication of the world is increasing every decade. It is no wonder that religion has also been shrinking across geographies and families are deflating. It is also propelling the world to self-destruction as prey becomes harder to capture due to increased competition, and dwindling natural resources.

Though rare, sheep can sometimes become 'aware'. These sheep then become shepherds. They are exceptionally smart humans who have figured out the dynamics between sheep and wolves. Though aware, they generally don't take on wolves because of their numerical minority. Wolves, however, can band together against a shepherd and are generally succesful in taking them down. 

Shepherds are enlightened people who are beyond the power play of sheep and wolves. Though mostly unused, they wield enormous power because of their command among sheep. It is important to realise that sheep are still the majority of the population. A shepherd usually has no interest in starting a following, but sheep often end up creating cults after them. After the shepherd passes on, wolves generally always take on the reins of these cults, and use them for their own ends.

These cults or religions are the sheep's way of reacting to the continued aggression against them. They seek solace in numbers. Connecting to their fellow sheep distracts them from their helplessness, lulling them into a false sense of empowerment. Wolves can take down such sheep easily by masquerading as sheep, and claiming their loyalty by being one of them, since religions often segregate on the basis of uniformity factors like name, race, faith etc and most of these variables can easily be assumed by an ambitious wolf.

The human world runs on the fuel of mental and physical effort. Most of this comes from toiling sheep--the Atlases of our times. Some of the mental fuel also comes from wolves trying to preserve their food supply chain. The skills that transform a rock to a building, or a mountain into a city are not the skills that enable a wolf to capture a prey. Inventors and scientists mostly come from the flock of sheep. That is why the richest and most powerful people seldom are inventors. There may come a time when there are no more sheep left to prey upon and such cities will cease to exist.