3page essay on hypocrisy of modern alternatives/individuality

Courtesy of Jaye's Sermon on Stuck Mojo's Pigwalk.

Brothers and sisters, we live in a troubled time. We live in a time when lack of ability and talent is mistaken for genius. When jumping on the bandwagon is considered originality. Ahh, we live in a time when a world intended, much needed musical revolution has been weakened, perverted, polluted, until it is no more than a hideous fashion show. A fashion show that began as a rebellion itself against corporate mainstream, yet today it finds itself to be the very mainstream that it claimed to be alternative to. While the bands who would before criticize arena rock stars now find themselves arena rock stars!

What was once the antidote has now become the poison. The cure has become the disease. Ahh, let the church sing.

Amen!!

By Highlander:

We are a culture that applies pressure to people to be individual and different, and by doing so to conform to societies pressure defeats the original purpose of individuality.

But we are a society who pressures others not to be unique. It is popular to "try to be different" but you're not popular if you don't fit in. It is a fundamental oxymoron of the human desire to be an individual and also gain acceptance of peers.

And the companies who like to capitalize on human fear and desire.

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