A mixed-up brain from a cross-wired culture. Get a job,
go to school, get married and have kids. Be yourself, don’t sub-
mit to peer pressure, make your own decisions and if everyone
jumped off a bridge don’t to it.
“To be or not to be like everyone else, that is the ques-
tion.”
I am a man that doesn’t want to be the stereotype of con-
formity. Then the normal way becomes disenfranchised noncon-
formity.
“Am I a nonconformist disenfranchised to nonconformity now normal?”
My generational birthright tells me that I am entitled to
complain about the ways of society. When everyone says that
society is wrong, they become a society of nonconformists.
“I’m trained to question the greater voice and have be-
come one with the society of nonconformists.”
The time has come to question the nonconformists.
“What’s the validity of nonconformity for the sake of non-
conformity?”
Then I become a nonconforming nonconformist. A two-
part nonconformist. I wear slacks with a button-up shirt and tie.
As a first part nonconformist, the tie represents a class symbol.
I lose the tie and untuck the shirt. Except now I look like a man
whose just lost everything on the stock market.
My first part nonconformist says, “Capitalist animal.”
My second part nonconformist says, “Without the ideals
of money, the inherent lazy man would cripple the world.”
The tie goes back on, the hair grows long, the shirt tucks
in and I shove on a pair of boots but I don’t listen to the radio. Mu-
sic on the radio is evil and over-produced to please the masses.
So says my first nonconformist.
“Although there must be a quality, if so many people lis-
ten,” the second nonconformist says.
Soon everything becomes up and down, mixed or left and
right crossed.
“Who am I? Who are you? What am I doing? What are
you doing? What should I do?”
We’ve become dependent on living life by what we were
taught.
“We were taught by people who had lived a life before us.
Not our life but we were taught their lessons that don’t apply.”
What we all need is a good mental enema. Clean out
everything we think we know. Men stop being men. They don’t
become women or children. They are.
They’re not suits, cars or houses.
“We’re not ideals, beliefs, or politics.”
We’re not good or bad.
We are nothing we were told to be and not what we were
not told to be. We become what we want to because of our own
informed decision and not because of our situation.
“When was the last time you made your own decision?
Not because of work or family or even social constraints. Not
what was expected or needed. In the end when you decided to
inform yourself and question your information. Question why you
need to be informed on everything.”
Will life not carry you in its momentum?
How much detail of information?
What information is relative?
The animal in the wild lives well without concerns of war
or money. The ignorance is bliss and information builds stress.
Question why you are questioning.
“Then question why you shouldn’t question.”