So i wrote this in response to the usual "isn't dressing all weird just conforming to uncomformity blah blah" debate, and I though tof you, oh wonderous suicide people girls.
Also, my last post almost looked like ANGST, and thus msut be banished from my userpage.
No further ado,
*I've always thought this was a really odd debate, but as local punk/goth/whatever guy I get it a lot.
So, let's cut to the basic fallacy here... the idea non-individuals exist. To assume people are trying to "become" individuals is to assume people are idiots. Everyone is an individual, and they know it quite well for themselves. Admittedly, some are confused in their teen years, but that's a rarity.
If your local mullet-headed redneck is proud to be one of the only mullet-headed rednecks around, it is not because he feels everyone else is not an individual. It is because he has chosen a lifestyle that suits him, and that, due to the lack of rednecks, is a difficult path. He does not give in to the lure of an easy life of khaki pants and a day job. Thus, he is a mullet coated hero, walking a lonely path in the face of grave danger (like not getting a girlfriend), ala Don Quixote.
He is likely to assume, and probably correctly, that some others have taken the path of least resistance, despite their *individual* desire to be mullet headed rednecks. They are individuals too of course, but unwilling to go down the road they really wish to. These people look at him with jealous eyes, and he laughs in mullet-regaled joy... *this* is the source of pride in being "different".
Now, a thousand Avril Lavinge girls may indeed be following their deepest desires, for 14 year old girls, much like 14 year old boys, are stupid. If they are, they should be happy, although it may not be as hard a road as others, it is their road. However, if those 14 year old girls really, really want a mullet, then they are sad people whom mullet-man will laugh at as he rides by on his shining white tractor.
thank you, and goodnight. *
Also, my last post almost looked like ANGST, and thus msut be banished from my userpage.
No further ado,
*I've always thought this was a really odd debate, but as local punk/goth/whatever guy I get it a lot.
So, let's cut to the basic fallacy here... the idea non-individuals exist. To assume people are trying to "become" individuals is to assume people are idiots. Everyone is an individual, and they know it quite well for themselves. Admittedly, some are confused in their teen years, but that's a rarity.
If your local mullet-headed redneck is proud to be one of the only mullet-headed rednecks around, it is not because he feels everyone else is not an individual. It is because he has chosen a lifestyle that suits him, and that, due to the lack of rednecks, is a difficult path. He does not give in to the lure of an easy life of khaki pants and a day job. Thus, he is a mullet coated hero, walking a lonely path in the face of grave danger (like not getting a girlfriend), ala Don Quixote.
He is likely to assume, and probably correctly, that some others have taken the path of least resistance, despite their *individual* desire to be mullet headed rednecks. They are individuals too of course, but unwilling to go down the road they really wish to. These people look at him with jealous eyes, and he laughs in mullet-regaled joy... *this* is the source of pride in being "different".
Now, a thousand Avril Lavinge girls may indeed be following their deepest desires, for 14 year old girls, much like 14 year old boys, are stupid. If they are, they should be happy, although it may not be as hard a road as others, it is their road. However, if those 14 year old girls really, really want a mullet, then they are sad people whom mullet-man will laugh at as he rides by on his shining white tractor.
thank you, and goodnight. *
if you're not doing that, it doesn't matter if you're punk rock as hell... you still suck.