Yes, people can influence your decisions, but it's when you start letting them control your thoughts that problems arise.
Everyone has flaws, everyone has vices, and everyone thinks differently. From whatever president is in office, to whatever Bob Dylan is out protesting against them. Take advantage of that.
Monday, November 16, 2009
So in my sociology class I was called an 'unpatriotic cunt'
It basically started when we had to write a short paper explaining what we think the problem is behind our country (if we do think there is a problem) and all the social norms and morals that support this way of thinking.
Of course, my cynical self went to town on this and my basic thesis was that the majority of Americans are stupid, lazy, and dont think for themselves.
Which, sadly, is true. Examples including the military wife who called me an unpatriotic cunt.
The majority of people think that just because we're from this country and we're supposedly the greatest country on earth, we are allowed to do what the fuck ever we want and tell everyone else how it's done. We are close minded sociopaths who think we know it all and that everyone else is wrong. This includes everyone, from the bleeding heart liberals to the conservative republicans. We don't make our own decisions, we let someone else with a higher social status make them for us and just jump on the bandwagon and agree. For a country that is supposedly free and has endless opportunities to be different and make something of ourselves, we sure do like to conform to everyone else.
You don't need a mohawk to be punk rock, you don't need to wear neon and listen to 3Oh3 to be popular, you don't need to be poor because the rest of your family is, and you sure as hell dont need to think you're better than everyone else because your daddy is a doctor and drives a BMW.
Here's an idea, make your own opinion, no matter how outlandish or stupid it may seem to the public, it's your own thoughts and that should be the one thing society can't control. Yet we're letting this mass media and biased bullshit think for us because we're too lazy to think for ourselves. Don't argue that the media isn't biased either, everything is biased, from the obvious Fox News to Cnn, peoples opinions are going to be the front topic before any basis of fact. We're too caught up trying to live the 'American Dream' and make a lot of money and drive big cars and be respected. The truth is, no matter how important and inspirational you think you are, you're going to be hated. Stop trying to please everyone and make yourself happy. If being a Ceo of some big company and making loads of money makes you happy, then do it, it doesn't mean you're right and someone else is wrong, and if you wanna live off the land and go to Alaska and die in the back of some abandoned bus, that doesn't make you right either. Everything is based off of opinion. It'll always be like this, people need to accept it and live their own lives and stop worrying about everyone else.
Live for yourself and your loved ones, not to make your country proud or not because some god says it's the right thing to do. Be smart about it, not smart in societies way of looking at things, but smart in your own way.
It basically started when we had to write a short paper explaining what we think the problem is behind our country (if we do think there is a problem) and all the social norms and morals that support this way of thinking.
Of course, my cynical self went to town on this and my basic thesis was that the majority of Americans are stupid, lazy, and dont think for themselves.
Which, sadly, is true. Examples including the military wife who called me an unpatriotic cunt.
The majority of people think that just because we're from this country and we're supposedly the greatest country on earth, we are allowed to do what the fuck ever we want and tell everyone else how it's done. We are close minded sociopaths who think we know it all and that everyone else is wrong. This includes everyone, from the bleeding heart liberals to the conservative republicans. We don't make our own decisions, we let someone else with a higher social status make them for us and just jump on the bandwagon and agree. For a country that is supposedly free and has endless opportunities to be different and make something of ourselves, we sure do like to conform to everyone else.
You don't need a mohawk to be punk rock, you don't need to wear neon and listen to 3Oh3 to be popular, you don't need to be poor because the rest of your family is, and you sure as hell dont need to think you're better than everyone else because your daddy is a doctor and drives a BMW.
Here's an idea, make your own opinion, no matter how outlandish or stupid it may seem to the public, it's your own thoughts and that should be the one thing society can't control. Yet we're letting this mass media and biased bullshit think for us because we're too lazy to think for ourselves. Don't argue that the media isn't biased either, everything is biased, from the obvious Fox News to Cnn, peoples opinions are going to be the front topic before any basis of fact. We're too caught up trying to live the 'American Dream' and make a lot of money and drive big cars and be respected. The truth is, no matter how important and inspirational you think you are, you're going to be hated. Stop trying to please everyone and make yourself happy. If being a Ceo of some big company and making loads of money makes you happy, then do it, it doesn't mean you're right and someone else is wrong, and if you wanna live off the land and go to Alaska and die in the back of some abandoned bus, that doesn't make you right either. Everything is based off of opinion. It'll always be like this, people need to accept it and live their own lives and stop worrying about everyone else.
Live for yourself and your loved ones, not to make your country proud or not because some god says it's the right thing to do. Be smart about it, not smart in societies way of looking at things, but smart in your own way.
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