| Once I thought about breaking free from being one of the cookie cutter clones of everyone else in the establishment so I became a rebel, but it did not take long before I discovered that all us rebels dressed the same way, and listened to the same kind of music, and combed our hair alike, and so forth, even rebels confrom to the trends of the established "rebelhood". (new word)
And so other then our physical DNA make up, and our fingerprints, we are pretty much phychologically "not ourself" due to the cloning of consciousness by our environment, peer pressure, role models, and so on and so forth.
And yet we are our self because we are aware that we in fact are not someone else, or "them". We are aware of our indivdual seperation from the rest of the community, not as aliens, but not far from being a "loner" when it comes right down to it. Our self and ourself alone. And I think as such each person has formulated out of all he has learned and adopted a slightly "personal interpretation" relative to that perception which we might call "our self". But in most cases it would be hard to see those slight variables of consciousness in others, like not seeing a single tree because we are looking at the forest from a distance. |