In a message dated 9/27/00 1:26:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
deprince@bellsouth.net writes:
<<
>>(Ropy: I'm pretty sure that if you asked a hundred people on the street
if they
"fit in," you'd hear a hundred NO's. It's been my experience that homecoming
queens will go on for hours about how unpopular they were in high school.
Everybody is his/her own odd one out. But I'm talking about America.<<
I'm inferring that you have no sympathy for my situation. That's ok.
However, I don't think that your argument is correct. Would you classify the
Unibomber as being normal? How about Ted Bundy? >>
Jeez. You inferred wrong. And I don't think you really think I was equating
normalcy with obvious pathology. What I'm saying is that feeling yourself to
be the odd one out is very attractive and easily romanticized, at least to
Americans, where the maverick is worshipped. Check out the amount of
lone-car-peeling-away-from-the-traffic advertising. So the task seems to me
to be trying to determine what's genuine and what's cultural syndrome. Is
it possible that the notion of the groovy rogue is keeping you from observing
that nobody feels a real sense of belonging, of being entirely in balance
with, this culture? One would pretty much have to be an animated character
to feel that.
I'd continue in this vein but I really need to go watch a little television.
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