Baa Baa Fad Sheep

I don't expect you to be able to read this all at one time; it's a lot of stuff XD

How funny/sad/ironic is it that people are constantly going on about how they want to be themselves and express themselves how they want to while they're essentially fad following sheep? How much can you really be yourself if you're doing what everyone else is doing to fit in? Being independent is about doing things differently than other people; doesn't seem like such a difficult concept to me. "I think most people are fad-following sheep waiting for their televisions to show them the next great logo to plaster on their chests."

It's pretty hard not to become drawn in to the fads because then it's almost like you aren't part of the 'evolving' culture/society (I put quotes around the word 'evolving' because I think it's debatable whether humans are getting smarter or stupider which could be another post topic soon). A great example of this is Twilight: You either love it or hate it. It's almost like there can be no "in between" for this. When the Twilight parade passes by you either jump on the "Lovers" bandwagon or the "Haters" one; if you don't, you get left behind to get trampled on by society. With the majority of the popular things that are out there, if you don't know what they are or you do but say you have no opinion on it, it's almost like people don't know how to think of you. You can't determine someone's entire character by knowing whether they love Twilight or hate it, but some people feel that you can.

Rabid haters are just as intolerable, if not more, as the people that love it. If you don't like something, why don't you just disregard it? If you want it to go away, stop fueling all these debates which gets what you don't like more publicity? Is there really a purpose in always having to interpose into conversations with "WOW that is so dumb how could you like that"? No. There really isn't. If you don't like something, just leave it alone.

What I think is really stupid are the arguments people get in over certain things; particularly on YouTube. I bet you almost every single music video has at least one comment about "this is so much better than Justin Beiber" or any other celebrity that people like to hate on recently. Why is it so hard to just listen to the music? Does it really matter if you love Justin Beiber or hate him? Someday he'll just be another has-been while people have moved on to hate some other kid who's just trying to make it big. That also reminds me of the "Where's the Chapstick" video on YouTube. This comment "I puked after I saw her 300 pound chin, I hate over weighted people they are so gross" is just completely uncalled for. If you hate something, don't watch it and if you watch it and hate it, you don't need to pronounce it to the world; personally I don't care if someone hates something, but when you hate a person for their looks and for genuinely trying to do something funny, that's just wrong. Even though I don't really like Justin Beiber, I think that hating on Beebs' baby face is not cool, is it really his fault for how he looks? You can jokingly make fun of someone or something, but if you do so too much it gets on people's nerves. People are allowed to have opinions on what they like; there will never be a day in the world where everyone likes the same thing. It's just not possible. There will never be one music genre that everyone in the world listens to, just as there will never be a movie that the entire world likes.

Sometimes it's just the fact that something is popular that makes people automatically hate it. That's just stupid because the popularity level of something shouldn't be a factor in how you feel about it. Just because Twilight is cool doesn't give enough grounds to hate it. Nothing really gives enough grounds to hate it. Personally, I don't like the movies, but I did like the books. Seriously though, what could Twilight possibly have done to someone? It can't ruin your life and if that somehow happens, it's probably healthy to stop letting movies run your life.

Another stupid thing is when people hear about something from their friends and if their friends didn't like it, they don't give it a chance. Sure, friends are influential, but that doesn't mean you should listen to everything they say. No matter how many similarities you have with someone, they can't possibly like every single thing you do. If you don't see a movie when it comes out because your friends tell you they didn't like it and then you see it later and love it, you missed out until then. You may not want to feel like the odd one out, but if someone really is your friend, they don't care if you like something they don't. Having to fake that you hate something that you really like and your friends don't isn't a good thing for your relationships with them. It's not that I'm saying telling them that you like something they hate is going to make them is going to completely change your friendship, but having to put up a pretense is not good.

Kinda off-topic but here's something else that irritates me. When you go clothes shopping and just about every single store has the same styles of clothes. When scarves are in, they have them everywhere. The worst thing is when a certain style of clothes is just everywhere. When clothes with frilly stuff on them are cool, that's what they have at the store. And when you don't want frilly clothes, you can hardly find anything different. Even stores focus on trends and fads, they pretty much have to or they won't get business. If there was a store in 10 years or so that only sold those "Silly/Crazy Bandz" they probably wouldn't sell very many. Those things are cool now, but how long can something really be considered cool? Every fad has its few years of being cool, but after that it basically drops off the face of the earth only to be heard about when the old people talk about them and how they were cool when they were a kid. Some people do have a fascination with older trends, but if you aren't up with the times it's hard.

I love 90s music, but that's something that will always be there just like music from before then. Even the type of music people like is somewhat becoming a fad although it seems like you can't influence the type of music that people like. The Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, etc were cool in the 90s, but play that music to kids of today and most of them will say the music is bad because it's not the "cool genre". It kinda upsets me to see that most of the top billboard songs are from the rap/hip hop genres because although I don't despise rap/hip hop, they aren't exactly on my list of favorite things.

I also wanted to reference back to a previous ramble post. "If people just do and act like everyone else does or as they are told to, then what does their existence mean? We don't need 2 million people that have the same hair and clothes and act the same in the world. We need people that think like their own individual self and have their own unique ways to do things." How much can society really advance with people who do what people tell them to? Imitating what other people do isn’t conducive to the advancement of anything. People don’t like when they’re forced to wear uniforms, but then they go out and buy the same style of clothes as ‘everyone else’ to fit in.

People get way too worked up about things that really don't affect their lives at all. If I see something that makes fun of, say Buffy, I don't care that someone doesn't like it; it's their opinion. If I see a parody of Buffy and it's funny even though it makes fun of the show, I'll laugh. I won't get worked up about how someone could possibly not like the show. Any parody type things I can find funny because truthfully it doesn't matter how people feel about it, I like it and that's really all that matters. If someone doesn't like me because I like it, then that's their problem because they can't see from anyone else's point of view.

This isn't random at all, but I also wanted to note that Justin Beiber is coming out with his own nail polish line (and yes Ken this was in my post before yours; mine was just in a draft so you copied me). This isn’t random either, but I really like the word vernacular. It starts with a ‘v’. Anyways, there are always going to be the Justin Beibers and Twilights of each generation, and hopefully someday humans as a whole will realize the stupidity of fighting over things that have no solution and are subjective. This is a really long post xD I hope I’ll still have stuff to talk about in my posts after this. Oh and a btw if you're still reading: The title's a play on the nursery rhyme of "Baa Baa Black Sheep".

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new" - Henry David Thoreau