Sometimes you just don't like stuff.
Friday, February 18, 2011 at 04:13PM Sometimes you just don't like stuff.
I don't like the illuminati conspiracy stuff because I feel like it's rejecting the responsibility of just plain not liking stuff.
Why can't these people just say proudly and confidently that they don't like the ideology reflected in these pop music images without blaming some secret society?
They're saying, this imagery is damaging because it's it was created to push the new world order. Why not say this imagery is damaging because it supports values I don't agree with?
They're seeing these images, reacting negatively to them, and forming intricate reasons why after the fact.
You don't like the ideas in Lady Gaga's Telephone? That's cool. Neither do I. I know how you feel.
When I was sixteen, I was watching cheerleaders perform at a football game and I decided I didn't like them.
I started creating all these reasons as to why; it's because they dress the same and that doesn't support individuality, it sexualizes teenagers, etc.
But then I realized the simple truth - I'm just not into cheerleading.
I felt the need to justify it with all these ideological principles because I felt threatened.
Other people like cheerleaders, I didn't, and therefore I felt the need to use logic to justify my minority opinion.
I was sixteen years old and still mature enough to recognize this was the case.
There's nothing wrong with just plain not liking the ideas projected in pop imagery.
Sometimes a person forms beliefs, and then they react a certain way to art depending on how those beliefs trigger their responses.
I feel in the case of Illuminati conspiracy theorists, they make up reasons that really had nothing to do with the initial trigger.
Funny how the further into adulthood we get, we forget the lessons we learned in elementary school about fact vs. opinion.
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