Everyone wants to be a non-conformist and everyone wants to be different. People these days are racing to be the most individual, but so many of them have no motive other than the fact that rebellion sounds like a good idea. And yes, rebellion is a brilliant idea if it has a point. And what’s the point of dressing a certain way or of getting a million piercings, for no other reason than to be different? Isn’t the point defeated when everyone’s in the same boat, trying to sail to standing out or being a non-conformist or a rebel? If you want to dress differently, or get piercings or tattoos or do anything like that, then that’s brilliant. I’m all for that, but is there much point in sitting there and pretending that doing these things will disrupt the ingrained flow of society? You want to be an individual? Then get rid of all that shit because it makes you look like you’re wearing a uniform like everyone else, and that’s not rebellion. That’s simply fashion. A rebellion is something that happens in the mind and in the heart…it can’t just be created on the spot. It’s something that’s ingrained into your heart and your brain…It’s a fire that needs a spark. I mean, society today is pretty shit and I’d enjoy a rebellion as much as the next anarchist, but if you look at it, there’s so much that can be gathered from the way we’re raised and the environment we grow in. Some people are just naturally different from the rest, while others blend in and grow up wanting to stand out. The world we live in, the schools we go to and the expectations that we shoulder have moulded us into a generation of automatons. You’ve got to do it the way you’re told or it’s unacceptable, and a people’s rebellion against that is what this world so desperately needs. But it has to be done the right way. We can’t just sit there wearing ‘wild’ clothing and say we want to be ‘non-conformists’, because that will do nothing for the betterment of our society. We have to stand up and we have to fight. We need to ignite that fire and let the flames spread like a bushfire in the summer.

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