The majority of people don't think for themselves...

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it horrifies me...a society of conformists, who must always put things into little neat boxes, man, woman, black, white, jew, terrorist, gay, weird...a group blindly following arbitrary traditions and roles, without questioning them one little bit...a herd of sheep, stupidly buying whatever new fad is being marketed in the mass media...a tone deaf group of humans, purchasing whatever faff is played to them a million times on radio stations funded by record companys, and watching in delight as an art-deprived reality-tv karaoke contest takes centre stage...a plastic, culturally devoid pit of consumerism...a celebrity obsessed bitching-contest that puts people on glowing icy pedestals, only to chip away at them with their bitter chisels...a society where the intelligent and resourceful are mocked as geeks and terminally uncool, only to be r*ped for their scientific discoveries and benefits years later, whilst the untalented yet socially adept charmers work their way up to the top of the stinking, filthy pile of bodies...

so...here i stand, the misanthope, am i being too harsh on western culture? possibly, the only thing i can be sure of is that i'm glad that my mirror neurons are not fully developed, lest i become a 2-dimensional character within a poorly written best-seller.

alex x

i think i'm just in one of my bitter moods today...i was treated very badly for the first 20-odd years of my life, yet see people who are far less intelligent/talented/interesting doing far better in life...i'm getting some decent counselling soon so hopfully i can get rid of a few of these negative thoughts...i don't want to become a complete egomaniac like i did before...but, yeah, i guess, apart from a few subdivisions of society who have cool facets to them, i just don't like people, i see many of them as flawed, and just can't comprehend why they're feeling better than i am...maybe ignorance is bliss, after all?

I declare a round of applause for Xanderbeanz!

*claps*

That is exactly how I am feeling today towards our western world. Xanderbeanz, you understand me.

wow. extremely accurate could not say and/or describe western culture any better than that, and to think I live with rednecks obsessed with beer, partying and guns. *claps as well*

It puzzles me why you guys think people are different in Eastern/Southern/Northern cultures. It's all the same everywhere! And I should know, for I'm a South-american living in the Middle East and dealing with Asian employees and African customers, and have Russian colleagues and close acquaintances.

holy crap guys, i thought that someone would disagree with me somewhat and point out that i was being harsh and overstimulated...but so far from the replies it seems my assertions are right...and that the human race IS actually doomed....whoops!

i think you are 100% correct, however i dont think it's necessarily a bad thing. i follow a lot of things that are popular, however the difference is that i know that i'm being a follower and i choose to follow. but i dont like people that just follow everything and dont even realize that they are sheep

Anti-conformity is a form of conformity. Just saying

The main thing that horrifies me about this time we're living in right now is the hatred and disdain poured on weird and insane people. I agree with you on that point.

It's a little conflicting really. Hospitals, schools and so forth have started treating outcasts much better but the general public is largely reacting by being snobs towards us and treating us how they treated black people when they stopped being slaves.

A wise person follows their own path, Grasshopper.

I agree with you in my own personal taste but I feel a bit hypocritical to look down my nose at people just because they happen to like reality-TV or other mainstream media fluff. I guess I feel this way because I see so many anti-mainstream people who seem to be that way just so they can identify themselves as 'cool' in their own way. They're just conforming to a different anti-establishment concept of cool that is in itself another form of conformism and they come across as shallow snobs themselves.

Personally I'm pretty apathetic about the whole culture thing. I don't care one way or another what type of clothes I wear or how I look compared to other people and I don't ever advertise the type of music I like. It's the pop-cultural apathists who are the true anti-conformists IMO.

I know what you're saying though about the anti-intellectual undercurrent in society and it depresses me too. I just don't think it's anything new. It's something that has always been present and will always be present. I just try to look for what is compatible with me and ignore the rest. 99% of people bore me to tears and it's not just an AS thing. Most people are shallow and dull to me so I just have to go out and look for the ones that aren't.

Its true, what people like (or say they like in order to fit in) today seems simply awful to me. I am normally to each their own about these things, but when television and radio stations are not playing anything stimulating... well I have not watched TV for well over 5 months. (Coming from someone previously addicted to the idiot box)

i watch tv if QI is on