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Quote by: keith The man is actually extremely brilliant so hearing such about Marilyn Manson is not a surprise at all. |
i was a really big fan of his when i was in high school. heh, even went out as him to a halloween party. i wasn't an outcast whatsoever, although i didn't fit in at the same time. had plenty of girlfriends, friends, always someone to hang out with, etc.. played sports (hockey, baseball, soccer).. at the same time, i was (and still am) very much a *fly on the wall*. i found myself to be best friends with other outcasts, even though i had friends with people from every random clique. i identified with manson for sure, even if i didn't fully understand the content of his lyrics - i understood the point of his image very well.
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Quote by: keith Of course, everyone wants to blame the guns (and, especially Michael Moore), because our government schools couldn't have any culpability. |
i completely agree.. although, these issues are hardly isolated to children. there are plenty of adults who act out their nearly identical issues in various ways.
it's interesting how so much consumption can be a direct result of one's own sense of fear, characterized as poor self-esteem, etc.. guys who buy the hot sports cars, women who dress like sluts, people who feed themselves into obesity, cut throats at the corporate world who succeed by walking over everyone, people who buy into war mongering thanks to fear filled rhetoric, etc...
in the corporate world, you're supposed to conform. go to the corporate events, parties, laugh at the bad jokes, engage in team building, find the positives in everything even if they are few and far between.. i get to deal with this fun a lot at my job, where my boss (a director) is utterly full of it. i don't need to conform to be successful, never have and never will.
i just flipped on cnn's website and here are a few of their top headlines:
1. gunman opens fire at colorado megachurch
2. pig farmer found guilty of six murders
3. student arrested in online campus threats
and right next to those headlines, and splattered all over their pages are ads for crap to buy.