Society & the Status Quo

Posted on August 11, 2007
Filed Under General Thoughts |

Too many people go through life unquestionably conforming to society’s status quo.

You go to school, you get your A’s, you graduate, you go to a good university, you study some more, you get your A’s, you graduate, you get a good job, you work hard, you get promoted, you work harder, you save some cash, you retire and you tell your kids to do the same damn thing.

You go to your local mosque on Friday, you listen to the super wise genius Imam yelling repeatedly about how evil Jews are and how America must be destroyed, you go home, you flip on the TV, you watch the news, you witness US-backed evil Israeli Jews in action, you tell yourself “it must be true, Jews are evil”, you go to sleep, you go to work next day, you have a conversation with your colleagues about how evil Jews are, you come back home and you continue the same wonderful conversation with your kids.

Conform and you’ll inevitably drown. Conform and you’ll be mediocre. Conform and you’ll parrot the same old boring views repeatedly.

Break away and you’ll slowly but surely find our own voice. It might not be popular. It might even enrage a lot of people. But at least it’s a voice you can call your own.

I know I made some sweeping generalizations in this post but I hope you got the point. If you didn’t, allow me to simplify it.

F*** the status quo.

Comments

4 Responses to “Society & the Status Quo”

  1. Finnpundit on August 13th, 2007 4:32 am

    That’s what the philosopher Hannah Arendt meant by the “banality of evil”.

    It’s not the garish, awful stuff that’s evil. It’s the everyday attitude people develop about awful stuff that’s evil.

  2. Drima on August 13th, 2007 9:55 am

    “It’s not the garish, awful stuff that’s evil. It’s the everyday attitude people develop about awful stuff that’s evil.”

    Nice simple way of summing it up.

    Hmmm… Hannah Arendt huh?

    I just Googled the name and now about to read a few articles on her.

  3. Drima on August 13th, 2007 3:08 pm

    I can see that Immanuel Kant had a great influence on her. I like the fact that she was anti-Marxist. Interesting person.

  4. Nomad on August 17th, 2007 8:04 pm

    At my time I did it my way too, so “bon courage”,

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