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Monday, December 04, 2006
"My thoughts on People vs Sheeple" Firstly, what are "Sheeple"?..Wikipedia defines it as such: Sheeple is a term of disparagement, a portmanteau created by combining the words "sheep" and "people"; a reference to herd mentality. It is often used to denote persons who acquiesce (bow down) to authority, and thus undermine their own human individuality. The implication of sheeple is that people believe whatever they are told, without processing it to be sure that it is an accurate representation of the real world around them. Well, in my context, "sheeple" include people who simply cannot grasp the concept that "the knife is the tool, and the mind is the weapon"..decidedly, as the years go by, i have become more reluctant to showing people my knives, or to a certain extent, even deny the fact that i do tote blades. In the post-911 era, having been branded(though often jokingly) as a "terrorist" isn't exactly a nickname i'd embrace..it just falls beyond our comprehension, as knife-collectors, as to how people can simply fail to see the fact that knives were, and are to this date mankind's oldest tool..it is instead the mind that has made them out as weapons, and society that has socialized generations into believing that this fallible statement is indeed a truth. Recently, in the United Kingdom, there has been an active push to "disarm" society by encouraging citizens to dispose of knives, which are branded as tools of mass destruction..what hogwash!..in fact, the laws of Britain have led me to question the credibility of its rulers. At present, the laws of Britain states the following: "Section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 currently prohibits the possession of an article with blade [sic] or point in public without good reason or lawful authority, with the exception of a folding pocket-knife with a blade not exceeding three inches. It would be for an individual to demonstrate that he had good reason to possess a knife, for example for work, fishing or other sporting purposes, in a public place" 3 For a knife to be a folding pocket-knife within the meaning of this section, it must be readily and immediately foldable at all times, simply by the folding process. A lock-knife, which required a further process, namely activating a trigger mechanism to fold the blade back into the handle, was held not to be a folding pocket-knife (Harris v DPP [1993] 1 All ER 562); followed in R v Deegan [1998] Crim LR 562,[1998] 2 Cr App Rep 121. Well, it seems to me that the Locking mechanism of a folding knife renders it the capacity to inflict greater percieved harm. This clearly goes to show how little the law setters know about knives. Any knife user or collector would be able to quickly tell you that the sole purpose of the lock is to function as a safety mechanism, to prevent the accidental closure of the blade onto the fingers wrapped around the handle. How rational these parliamentarians are (sarcasm intended).. My next point lies on how irrational and unpredictable Non-Knife collectors can sometimes be. recdently, i read a post on the forums relating to how a man had had his USD1,300 knife abused by people who clearly had no idea of what the sole purpose of the knife was. Wikipedia defines knives as such: Why then is it that seemingly rational people would use a knife as a prybar to pop open beer can bottle tabs; and worse, to bounce it off a brick wall just to see how it performs?..in view of these acts of total irrationality, it leads me to ponder "did ape precede man?..or did man precede ape?" with this i end my first post...hope it was an interesting read.. All God's Critters have Knives (quoted from Spyderco INC) Nick.
++ quoth dragonfly at 7:26 AM |