It's often been said that patience is a virtue, of course, in this day and age of Twitter, Facebook, and nano-second multi-tasking it is certainly a lost virtue.
Some might say that patience is underrated.
In many regards patience makes no sense, why wait when you can go after what you want right now? Indeed, patience is what herd animals have, and focus in the here and now is what predatory animals have, those animals that do not flock.
So which is better? If we look at a Hawk, a shark, a road runner, a tiger, or any other higher level animal within their food chain we see that those with a lack of patience have generally risen to the top through the evolutionary process.
The dumber animals which gather in large herds seem to "get by with a little help from their friends," believing there is safety in numbers, albeit they are eventually picked off one-by-one by the predator with no patience.
Interestingly enough, when it comes down to survival, all animals including humans are the same, they want to survive.
Therefore when the predator comes after the herd, it is the weaker which are picked off first.
In some regards this is good for the herd because it keeps it strong, but the competitive aspect makes the predator work harder, thus become even stronger.
Therefore, we should assume that in human societies the strongest of all will be those with a lack of patience.
Now then I ask is strength a virtue? The Greeks always thought it was, so did the Romans, and I believe so do most true Americans still, although the jury is still out as we turn ourselves into a socialist nation and a herd of humanity like the Borg.
Okay so, if all the social networking is causing us to lose our patience, then perhaps in that regard it might be considered a good thing, and it is making a stronger, even if, in way it is corralling human thought back into the herd.
In the end, it would seem that it is the shepherd who is wisest, he who is leading the herd with due patience rather than chasing them down one-by-one.
In the end however the individual of the herd is slaughtered nevertheless.
The calculating shepherd knows exactly what he is doing, and I'd like to ask you if you know what you are doing each time you post something on Facebook? I have no further comments, and I hope you will please consider this, but only on a philosophical level, and that you will hold true to your virtues.
Think on this.