It always amuses me the way normal people keep going on and on about "liberties", "freedom", "personal rights", and "one's right to choose"
...then sell themselves out to the social construct:
>Everyone wears the same clothes and styles
>Everyone "has to" get their tattoos
>Everyone has an iPhone or SmartPhone
>Everyone's personal vehicle is either a "jelly bean" shaped compact car, an S.U.V., or "monster-sized" pickup truck. And every make and model of each type of vehicle all have the same features and same dimensions
>Everyone is a caricature of their ethnic ancestry, their gender, their social class, their academic level, their sexual preference, their political beliefs, their religious affiliation, their idealism, their subcultural affiliations
>Everyone watches the same latest movies, the same current television shows, and listens to the same latest popular music
>Everyone is obsessed with 24/7 sports and the current crop of "idol" professional and college athletes and coaches
>Everyone is constantly fixated on currently popular famous "idol" entertainers
>Everyone is obsessed with politics and politicians
>Everyone gravitates to current social trends like they were the "gospel" on how to live and behave
>No-one ever notices the parallels between the present social climate and what's happened in the past
...then sell themselves out to the social construct:
>Everyone wears the same clothes and styles
>Everyone "has to" get their tattoos
>Everyone has an iPhone or SmartPhone
>Everyone's personal vehicle is either a "jelly bean" shaped compact car, an S.U.V., or "monster-sized" pickup truck. And every make and model of each type of vehicle all have the same features and same dimensions
>Everyone is a caricature of their ethnic ancestry, their gender, their social class, their academic level, their sexual preference, their political beliefs, their religious affiliation, their idealism, their subcultural affiliations
>Everyone watches the same latest movies, the same current television shows, and listens to the same latest popular music
>Everyone is obsessed with 24/7 sports and the current crop of "idol" professional and college athletes and coaches
>Everyone is constantly fixated on currently popular famous "idol" entertainers
>Everyone is obsessed with politics and politicians
>Everyone gravitates to current social trends like they were the "gospel" on how to live and behave
>No-one ever notices the parallels between the present social climate and what's happened in the past
Not everyone.
ReplyDeletePoetic license "entitles" me to pigeonhole, prototype, and stereotype anyone I please
ReplyDelete...especially the "collective whole"