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hey a talkingcow you do know that "</h>" is not how you close an <h3> tag right?
on-topic: it's natural to want to fit in a feel accepted. |
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But the major difference is, I'm not going out of my way to be like/unlike anyone else.
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I think the most basic reason for this whole situation wasn't hit strongly enough. The main reason is because people dont like to be alone. There is a reason why solitary confinement is one of the strictest punishments in prison. So naturally people will do what they can to be around other people and sometimes this means trying to change who they are and ultimately becoming what they changed into.
Conformity/Nonconformity is only part of the label system of modern day media and interactions. Because today we have the ability to be whomever we please, the natural tendency is to label each and every thing as a way of keeping track of it all. Emo, preppy, jock... Its all just a way to closely classify someones habits of dress, attitude, etc. What people dont realize is that taking to a specific classification is just giving the media more justification to praise or hate one classification over another which brings the whole controversy of being in a "clique". I think ljw5021 has somewhat of the right idea but isnt getting it across as strongly as it could be. If all logic points to conforming as an act of not being lonely, then it would also mean that all you simply have to do is find people who you enjoy being around regardless of which "class" they fall in and if someone rejects you because you are not the same as them then they are obviously to immature to deserve your friendship. If you dont worry/care about the whole thing then you will find that you are happier without it. I base my friends off of their morals and if i have fun with them or not. For whatever reason, the public tries to make it more complicated than that. |
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Let's face it, society needs conformity. If all us teens didn't conform to the school's and their idiocy, we'd have no foundation for a future society. If adults didn't conform to working at a job as opposed to stealing the money from a bank, economies would cripple. Why do people conform? We act based on role models we look up to, essentially conforming to what they believe.
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conformity is stupid it's sucking the creativity from the world and eventually the world wil be boring.STOP CONFORMITY!
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It's impossible to be "original". Everything you do will've been done by someone else at some time.
Well, impossible isn't the word for it, but let's put it this way. You're probably never going to meet an "original" person in your life. Is everyone different in some way? Yeah. But does that make everyone original? No. At least not anymore than they would be if they all wore the same things and did the same things. That being said, I just do as I like and know that no matter what I do, someone will always agree with me. What's the point of trying to do otherwise? EDIT: Oh god, bad typo. Fixed it.
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i h ate when people listen to the music i do because they saw that one song on MTV and it is possible to be original that is why the great Peter Lewis Kingston WEntz III created fueled by Ramen b/c conformity is ruining our lives
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yeah damn people for having different reasons from you for listening to the music you listen to!
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Thats because it doe's. It makes perfect sense.
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People conform so one day they can get a respectable job and live a comfortable life. Wearing different clothes or listening to less than popular music doesn't make you unique or better than anyone else. Grow up.
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Don't get me wrong, sometimes uniqueness can be good. If we were all exactly the same at everything, life would be a bit boring. You don't have to try to fit in if you don't want to.
But trying not to "just because" is nonsense.
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buts thats just the point i was trying to make people who watch MTV are conforming by only listening to music that the other ppl do and saying that they're original but their all just posers
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What's the point in trying to find music to like that other people do not like?
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If you like it, is it especially relevant whether 1, 1000 or 100 million people also like it?
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I'd almost prefer the complete opposite. I'd prefer a large amount of other people liked the same music as I do because then I could easily talk to random people about how good a song is, or how I like how something sounds, etc.
I mean, that doesn't mean I'll stray away from something or listen to something a bit less just because few people like it, but others enjoying the same thing as I do is just a nice "extra" thing. I mean, there are some songs almost everyone knows. Is it not fun to talk about them?
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The whole branch off discussion in this thread about music is extremely ignorant, almost to the point of stupidity. People who like the music on MTV listen to it for the same reason some people listen to not well known music: because they like the ****ing music.
Every person is unique in some way, no matter how many "labels" they supposedly conform to. Thread over.
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