WoolyBully7, 2/8

“Let us wage a war on totality.”
-Lyotard

Let us fight against complete, centralized systems. Let us fight similarity and praise individuality. As much as I love people who go against the grain and try to be their own unique person, a lot of bad has happened from people who hate conforming. Everything we see today is a reflection of society and is trying to make us conform. Gossip magazines tell you what the celebrities are buying and wearing so you can go get it and be just like them rather than buying you truly want, not because someone famous promotes it. The only person who should tell you what to be is yourself. The same goes for housing developments. If you have driven by Baldwin Park recently you know exactly, exactly what I mean.

It’s called the cookie cutter theory. Sure it’s a very nice neighborhood with a lot of benefits but it’s just so insipid and tasteless. Sorry to anyone who lives there but there was honestly hardly any creativity involved in its construction. I go there almost every day to eat, shop or visit someone but it is really a strange place. I was driving by the elementary school on the main road, I saw kids out at recess and I wondered if those kids knew they lived in such a bland area. I mean growing up in a neighborhood like BP is not reality. That’s just me thinking. It really is like the movie Pleasantville. No crime, no loose ends, a straight edged community. One of the main reasons people conform is because they are afraid of being too much of an outcast. Sure on the outside most of us may have a couple designer items but who we are, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs, hobbies, inspirations, goals, that make us not conform since no two people are exactly alike.