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Conformity


Feelings of disgust fill me when I observe the identity of an
individual being crushed by the widespread need to fit in with society and
be like everyone else. Differences in character, appearance and emotion
are created by unique pasts, and form the foundation for personal beliefs.
When these differences are erased by society's attempt to create anologous
creatures, individualism --a value that I hold in high esteem-- is lost.
I aquired these values from my personal intuition and from taking the
advise of personal mentors as authorty.
Throughout my life, I have been blessed with a combinaion of two
traits; I am observant and skeptical. Watching other people's lives and
hearing ...

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and other dignitarys who I
valued as authority. Any sort of publication that celebrates the
individual captures my attention and can range from the books and essays of
Henry David Thoreau to the rebelious content in the music of Rage Against
the Machine. Since I read Walden, Thoreau has branded his interpretation of
a famous saying into my brain: "If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him
step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
A poster on the wall of my bedroom illistrates a beatnik walking in
the opposite direction of a crowd of suited businessmen contains a quote:
"The dissenter is every human being at whose moments of his life when he
resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." These are words
that I live ...

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Added: 12/31/2005 11:56:04 PM
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