i don't particularly love anything around me right now, and i feel like i'm missing out on things i can really be interested in!.
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Position:Home>Philosophy> How can I avoid being influenced by mainstream culture?Question: How can I avoid being influenced by mainstream culture!? i don't particularly love anything around me right now, and i feel like i'm missing out on things i can really be interested in!.
do you follow!? answer or elaborate!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I do follow, and I ask myself this same question all the time!. I feel that as I have aged, I have been broken and beaten down by the constant messages and expectations of this world!. Then I think, when I was a child or even just younger, how differently I thought!. I thought- I can make a difference in this world!. I thought-there is true justice in the world and the good guy will always prevail!. And I thought-If you go deep enough you will find that there is good in everybody!. Sadly, as I get older, I find myself so much more cynical!. I find that- I really have very little influence in this world, that I like the rest of us, am just trying to get by!. I find that-not only is there often no justice, but those perpetuating this injustice are actually doing it blatantly and without remorse and restraint!. And I find, (and perhaps the saddest of all), -that there are truly evil people out their who really will hurt you given the opportunity!. Then I sigh, and wish I was that young, bright eyed youth I used to know!. I so miss that person I once was!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Oh you mean fashion trends, gossip, dictated behavior, that kind of thing!? Oh that's simple; just realize they are all retards!. That is the first step, the second one is; imagine all those "jet setter" people as being 80 years old!. With the clothes and styles they wear, how they color and cut their hair to look good, how some men wear spiky designer haircuts imagine the latest fashion, worn by geriatric care people!. You will realize the stupidity of it, when you picture them as being very old!. So you get a tattoo; how will you explain it to your grandkids!? How will it look when your skin is all wrinkly!? No one ever thinks about those things!. also try to imagine all those attractive actresses you see; for example when Scarlett Johansson is 60, she will probably be the next Indiana Jones!. Why do I think this!? She will be able to use her boobs as the trademark whip!. also, when the remake of "close encounters of the third kind" gets remade in the future, Natalie Portman will have a very important role!. See because her hips are considerably wider than her shoulders and she has a "triangle" shape, by the time she is an old woman, she will be able to play the role of the space ship her hips will be so wide and out of proportion to her shoulders! Now, try to imagine both those actresses, in that condition, wearing the latest designer outfits, just try!. Not a pretty picture is it!? You look at it, as a temporary passing thing, and you realize its stupidity!. also I invite you to look up the word "Fashion" in the World Book Encyclopedia, it does not matter what year although your local library should have fairly recent editions!. It should have pictures of fashions from earlier periods in human history!. You look at the way people dressed, and its like something out of a circus!. I guarantee, hundreds of years from now, people will look at our latest fashion trends exactly the same way!. We will be ridiculed, the exact same way we ridicule fashion from earlier eras!. Even the ancient Romans had more sense; both men and women wore a simple tunic, and to show off wealth, what they paid attention to was the material, not the design!. The whole idea of stylishness was started by the Rennaissance "power" families of Italy, quite possibly the greatest harm done to the world by Italy!. All that fashion circus!? The world of fashion, fashion models!? All that garbage got started in Italy roughly 400 years ago!. Its been a hallmark of big egos, big spenders, and big tyrants ever since!. You want to know of a way to separate yourself from it, and be beyond it, simply realize its stupidity!. What good does it do a pot-bellied turd to wear an expensive suit!? What good does it do to wear the latest dress when on the inside a woman is growing old!? The first and only priority is the health of the body and mind, everything else is garbage!. Its whole in part of why I LOVE video games; they are challenging, your brain gets a moderate workout, at least certainly better than watching T!.V!., plus when you get good at them, you have moments of zen, moments of perfection!. It takes a while but its worth it!. also, video games are VERY "outside" the mainstream world of the jet set and the "popular" people, which makes me like them even more, and damned straight I am ready to shut down ANY jet setter posers at Virtua Fighter! later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Whatever it is, if your aim is to achieve success and if your aim is to achieve perfection, if your aim is to achieve excellence in all your activities, and if you are involved in holy, noble or great activities, you can not be influenced by negative forces!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Turn off your TV and radio and don't go to the mall!. Try taking a coarse at a college (if you are able to)!. Every non-mainstream culture is mainstream to someone!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |