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Posted: March 22nd. 2008 9:02:02 AM
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Conformism within the Non-Conformists
by Talmhú damhsóir
Age Group: Teen
Goths, Stoners, Emos, Punks, Hippies, Anarchists, Radicals or whatever you call yourselves, you are all part of the non-conformist or non-mainstream society.
And i am damn glad you are! We need more people to be themselves instead of following a trend, but i ask you, when you drop out of mainstream society, and find more people like you who have also dropped out of mainstream society, arnt you in a way making your own little society with its own little set of conformist rules?
For example: I went to Hack a while back and i decided to by some smokes. So i debated for a while what brand to buy (Cant remember what brand it was) and then went and brought them. So I then offered another Hack person one and they said something along the lines of "What did ya get that brand for, no-one smokes them, only whats-is-name and hes a freak"
So it seems that even the most non-conformist of places still have to conform to a degree in order to be accepted.
"That guy there listens to MCR yet hes wearing a Slayer shirt, what a wanabee, lets smash him"
"Her hair isnt long enough to be like us, and those clothes are too mainstream"
"That person cant even take a toke without coughing, He/she must not smoke pot often enough to be a stoner"
We are made to conform even by those groups who hate conformists? How can we escape this endless judging?
Well we could go live with some strange feral tribe in the amazon somewhere, but i bet you that even there you have to conform. "Och, that new guy Chama-che-wolla-wolla hasnt killed a crocodile with only a dead monkey yet, he isnt a man! He shouldnt be in our society!"
Perhaps we could live in an anarchist village where everyone can be them selves 100%, But what about the chick who has bleeched blonde hair and a boob-job? "shes far to mainstream for us" the Anarchists would say, just because she is not conforming to what the anarchists think an anarchist should be like.
The only way we could live in a truley non-conformist way, is if everyone stopped judging one another, that also means to stop sterio-typing each other. To do this we have to release our ego. The ego is the thing inside you who gets angry, the thing that makes you sad, and the thing that judges and hurts others. Once you go past the egos point of view then you are truly free to be yourself.
If only everyone could see it this way, then we would be free to express our individuality without being judged for it.
Come on guys! You Goths, Stoners, Emos, Punks, Hippies, Anarchists and Radicals are the only people keeping this world together! Lets stop the Conformity within the Non-conformists eh?
Author's Notes: Not a poem, but to short to be called an essay.
Author's Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
More Poems: Talmhú damhsóir has posted 3 additional poems- View them?
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