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In article <65c509$7j8@snews1.zippo.com>,
TarlaStar <!!!bmyers@ionet.net> wrote:
>Dale Switzer <dale.switzer@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I agree that the situations are analogous.  However that does not mean
>>that the parents of yesterday were wrong.  My parents wished me to not
>>identify myself with those who were "smoking more dope".  Since they
>>were particularly good parents they were able to transfer this attitude
>>to me.  Therefore, despite the peer pressure, I avoided both the life
>>style and the dress code of the druggies.
>
>>And it was amazing.  After I grew up I found that my life had not been
>>maimed or broken by identifying myself with morally upright people. 
>>Contrariwise, I found that I had less problem gaining the trust of
>>society's mainstream.
>
>I've been realllllly good, but there is some shit I cannot eat....and
>this is it. FUCK YOU, PINKBOY. You deserve the life you've gotten. You
>deserve to get absolutely NO HEAD or better yet, bitten! Morally
>upright people indeed...Just say it, you damned sheep..."I'm happy to
>be a part of the herd. I LIKE BEING MEDIOCRE!" I bet you go to
>Disneyworld, don't you? You and your kind, (the normworms) make my
>flesh crawl...because you're maggots. 

Geez Tarla switch to decafe, OK?
Sure he's probably medicore, so what? Is he inflicting his medicority on
you somehow? Sure he may be raising medicore kids, but given the alarming
number of abusive parents, medicore isn't so bad is it?

>>Now I'm sure that many who chose a different road than myself also
>>managed to put together a respectable, successful life.  But their
>>youthful choices were more likely to hinder than to help their success.
>
>>I hope to raise my children in a similar way.  If they choose to
>>identify themselves by their clothing, I hope that they will choose an
>>identity which I and they will be proud of.
>
>>Contrariwise, if they choose to group themselves with  the dregs of
>>society, I will use whatever authority I have to forbid and discourage
>>that practice.
>
>You have no authority, you're a herdbeast. You allow others to have
>the authority and you never question it because yer a rilly GOOD
>herdbeast. When MY KIND rule this planet, you're going to make a very
>tasty meal.

That's all very nice, but meanwhile the planet's still running...
And while I'm not thrilled at the concept of boring yahoos like
dale running the world, nor am I overwhelmed at the thought of zealots
like yourself in charge. Of course those whole really do run things
are far more dangerous...

>>Of course, I will also be concerned with WHY they would make such and
>>choice and work on the disease as well as the symptom.
>
>The symptoms are conformity to a baseless standard and the disease is
>Conformity.

for what it's worth, I had to wear a uniform for 6 years in school myself,
and I didn't particularly enjoy it. Nor did my classmate Henry Rollins...


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