Sheep

The appeaser who followed the flock straight into disaster.

Waving a piece of paper at Heston Aerodrome in 1938 and declaring "peace for our time," he embodied the sheep's defining impulse: to avoid confrontation at almost any cost, seeking safety in appeasement rather than confrontation. His willingness to hand Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to Hitler at Munich wasn't mere political miscalculation — it was the sheep's herd instinct in full display, following the path of least resistance while hoping the flock would be spared. Like the sheep personality, he was conscientious and well-meaning, a capable domestic administrator who succeeded in bureaucratic environments, yet profoundly unsuited to the predatory world of fascist aggression. His famous admission — "How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches because of a quarrel in a far-away country" — reveals the sheep's deep discomfort with conflict, even when confronting it is the only path to survival.