Post #539226 by twitch on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 10:56 PM

Not that I'm a big fan of separatist movements, but...
I truly believe there is an "us" and a "them": as a long-ago poster mentioned The Prisoner, many are guards, the few of us are looking over the walls trying to figure a way out. Where I work, I'm forced daily to co-mingle with 'them': I used to bring up topics that interest all of us here and was always met with a sudden blank look, then all the heads look at each other, then a communal smile and it's all "hey that was a great goal last night!", or talk about the newest iPod innovation and everyone gets back in the comfort zone again. I'd always like to say, "You are all the reason why there was a Hunter S. Thompson.", but their lethargy gets contagious. So I just back away out the door slowly, trying to block out the third go-around of the same Shania Twain song that day from the soulless piped-in radio with a Cramps tune in my head and mentally ask myself, "Do these people think they have another life ahead of them after they die where they can actually explore being alive?!".

After eight hours of crushing sameness has its fun blindly chipping away at my soul, I once again join the ranks of - as Greg Graffin of Bad Religion put it rather perfectly - the Confederacy of the Wrong.

Glad to see this topic resurrected, too.