It's the new year once again and yet we wonder why has not much changed over the years. Surprisingly much has changed, but not for the better. Instead of thoughts, ideas, and actions moving forward with the change of time, much has actually gone backwards. Sure we have had many new technological breakthroughs, but when you look at society as a whole, one begins to see how much regression has taken place in the views, opinions, and disarray in the thought processes of society as a whole.
Take our commercials for instance, if you were to see one commercial that was straight and to the point without any eye-catching gimmicks and then one with something stupid like hamsters that can drive a car and dance, which one would most likely make you want to go buy the product advertised? You can lie and say the straight forward one, but honestly the more stupid a commercial is the more people are drawn to go get it. Society is stuck on stupid.
Take gambling now. In a bingo hall, children under 21 are allowed to play, but are they allowed in a casino? No. Isn't gambling still gambling by any other name? You pay money to win money at bingo just like at the casino, so what is the difference? The difference in most halls is no alcohol is sold, but there are still some that do sell it. Society is stuck on stupid.
Now let's look at laws of our great nation. Some laws are made by each state while some are made for the entire country. However they have some states with stupid laws that make absolutely no sense. In one state, you can get a ticket for pumping your own gas. Another, you get a ticket for smoking outside whereas smoking inside is okay. Society is stuck on stupid.
Getting into society's views on people you find that there is stupidity. Views on a person's character has changed dramatically. Back in the day the good ol' boy or girl was the first choice of women or men. The less tarnished you were, the more likely you were to get the girl or boy. This where many of the old movies got the idea of the hero always gets the girl. Today it's the villain to always get the girl or boy. The more times a man's been in jail, the seriousness of their crime, and the more powerful of the person they committed it against the more likely a man will get the girl since women these days all want someone whom they know to be a bad ass just to have something to brag about to other women. This is not to mention tattoos. Guys and girls dig girls and guys with tattoos. The more tattoos, the better a guy or girls chances. Not all are like that, but most of them are. Society is stuck on stupid.
Looking at the paragraph above showing the good points of being a bad ass, let's now focus on the bad. The more of a bad ass you are, the less likely you are to get a job. Also, if you were a bad ass in the past, you will always be seen as a bad ass even though it may have been 20 years ago and you had truly changed since then. Once a bad ass, always a bad ass in the eyes of society.
Society as a whole has their comfort zone encased by what they feel is normal based on their idea of what should be or shouldn't be. When you go outside their box and create your own shield of reality that is different than theirs, you crash their encasing and encroach upon their comfort zone. Not having knowledge of the way you see reality, they shun or attack it before at least trying to understand it. They're quick to tell you that what you are doing is not right or is sinful or even insane and unrealistic. To you it is, but they don't even care to truly get to the root of what makes someone the way they are. They just want you to give up your reality and follow theirs like mindless zombies. Society thinks we live in one world, but in reality we live in as many worlds as we have people living under this one sky. I say that because each individual has their own ideas of what is normal. This idea of what is normal allows them to form their own sense of what is real creating a different reality for that person. Then that reality the individual created, allows that person to see a whole different world than the one we see before us. Now you have each person living on Earth honestly living in a whole different world from each other.
I have a question for you, everyone seems to be scared of making a choice they would feel more comfortable with because society may not think it normal, but if society choose one day to say jumping off the Empire State Building and committing suicide was normal and those who didn't do it were freaks, nerds, weird, and to be shunned, would you choose to follow society and lose your life, or choose to go by your own idea of normal that created your own world with a world and still be alive? Next time you are faced with guilt of what society would think, think of that question and then do your thing. Don't live in society's world, but live every day in your own world. Take care and be safe always everyone.
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