"...all that's benign corrupts in time..."
So in the past few days, I've had somewhat of an epiphany:
In society, and in schools especially, there are people who aren't socially accepted. This is for various reasons. Some of them could be if they wanted to be, some of them could not. A week ago, I would have said that this is a cruel human practice and that it should be stood against by all. But now I know that this isn't true. It's not a cruel practice because it's not a practice at all. It's human nature. Sure, these people who are shunned will complain about the system, but they have no right to, because they, er, uh, we would do the exact same thing in the same position. In fact, we even will do the same thing to someone who meets our own standards. The only difference is that different levels of social acceptance have different standards. People can pretend that they don't have social standards and that no one should, but in truth, everyone does and they cannot help it. If you don't think you do, you simply haven't had to use them to judge someone "low" enough not to meet your standards.
There are two categories of people: people who try to meet other people's standards, and people who deliberately try not to meet them. I believe almost everyone falls into the first category (including myself and probably everyone that I've ever met in my life), whether they realize it or not. Whether they admit it to themselves or not. You may think that you're an individual person who doesn't care, but this can't be true because everyone cares about other people's standards. Almost everyone tries to conform to them, and the very few that don't try deliberately not to conform to them because they would rather be shunned than accepted. By trying to be "unique" or "yourself", you're simply trying to meet other people's standards by being so. Even most of the people who do deliberately not conform are simply trying to prove their "individuality" and therefore meet standards. Without other people's standards, we would have no means of judging ourselves, and therefore no means of determining who we "really are". Thus, individuality doesn't exist. Individuality is a popular belief that, in fact, isn't true. It's a myth at best and a blatant lie at worst.
So one cannot hate conformity, trendiness, fashion or social structure. One can only hate human nature. And I, for one, despise it with all of my being.
In society, and in schools especially, there are people who aren't socially accepted. This is for various reasons. Some of them could be if they wanted to be, some of them could not. A week ago, I would have said that this is a cruel human practice and that it should be stood against by all. But now I know that this isn't true. It's not a cruel practice because it's not a practice at all. It's human nature. Sure, these people who are shunned will complain about the system, but they have no right to, because they, er, uh, we would do the exact same thing in the same position. In fact, we even will do the same thing to someone who meets our own standards. The only difference is that different levels of social acceptance have different standards. People can pretend that they don't have social standards and that no one should, but in truth, everyone does and they cannot help it. If you don't think you do, you simply haven't had to use them to judge someone "low" enough not to meet your standards.
There are two categories of people: people who try to meet other people's standards, and people who deliberately try not to meet them. I believe almost everyone falls into the first category (including myself and probably everyone that I've ever met in my life), whether they realize it or not. Whether they admit it to themselves or not. You may think that you're an individual person who doesn't care, but this can't be true because everyone cares about other people's standards. Almost everyone tries to conform to them, and the very few that don't try deliberately not to conform to them because they would rather be shunned than accepted. By trying to be "unique" or "yourself", you're simply trying to meet other people's standards by being so. Even most of the people who do deliberately not conform are simply trying to prove their "individuality" and therefore meet standards. Without other people's standards, we would have no means of judging ourselves, and therefore no means of determining who we "really are". Thus, individuality doesn't exist. Individuality is a popular belief that, in fact, isn't true. It's a myth at best and a blatant lie at worst.
So one cannot hate conformity, trendiness, fashion or social structure. One can only hate human nature. And I, for one, despise it with all of my being.