This is in response to a particulary bad argument with a friend over things, and the way I see a new trend, if you have something to say about it, email me, thepimpleprechaun@swirve.com, I'd love nothing more to hear from people so that maybe I can write a follow up to this. The Ultimate Oxy-Moron Tonight I had 3 people brag to me about how much they cut themselves and how "[they're] on the verge of being put in a mental institution because people are so worried about them." Since when is it fucking cool to be 'depressed'? Since when is it a trend to cut up your arm with a broken wine glass, and then bitch and moan about how bad you have it? But then you ask them why they cut themselves and you get two answers, the first, and extremely bullshit one, "it feels good", do you honestly think that makes you sound that bad ass? Get addicted to Heroin, then MAYBE I'll buy into that load of crap. There is no way in hell cutting your flesh, attacking the nerves in your arm, feels good, you may NOT feel it because you are so blinded by your ego, but that's a whole other matter, but deep down inside you know you're nothing more then a trend follower vying for attention from the rest of your crowd. And despite all the hate I'll get for saying this, I don't care, you're all liars and you know it deep down inside.
There’s a difference between the mental realm and physical realm , on the mental, there is a group of people who are turned on by pain, and then there is the people I’ve mentioned, who, despite their façade of depression and sorrow, turn around and beam with inner happiness when someone says, “Geeze, your arm looks really bad.” These people make me sick.
Then there is the second answer, the one that is just that much closer to the truth, "because it looks cool". At least they're being honest when they say they're emulating their favorite movie stars and newfound idols, just in not so many words. You admire the other crowd, the ones that you throw milk cartons at and harass because they don’t have the same mindset as you. But, in recent time, they’ve become the center of attention, it all started with; (gasp, shall I dare say the word?) Columbine. When those walls were splattered in the blood of Jocks and Preps (which are synonymous, so we may as well call them all Preps), the media instantly attacked the subject and made martyrs of the two boys. And then it happened, everywhere Goths, Punks, Outcasts, Nerds, all of them, started to be in the spotlight as oppressed and deserving attention, winning the local football game didn’t mean anything anymore, instead, it made you one of the bad guys. So, it’s only logical what happened next, seeing as the other side was so glamorous, who else to make it a trend, but the status whores? Now it has become as fashionable to be a member of the other crowd as shopping at Abercrombie and Fitch. Instead of exchanging stories of how ‘fab’ the party was, they brag about how bad the have it. You wear your sorrow like a badge.
What does this have to do with Anarchy you ask? Easy, it's become fashionable to be an outcast, which is so close to an oxy-moron it's not even funny. All of a sudden little preppy bastards are scratching themselves up and screaming to the world that they have it bad. Fuck you, go to the third world and try your bullshit sorrow. And then there’s these kids who go home, throw some strike anywhere match heads into a tennis ball, throw it at a wall, and then proceed say they are anarchists. It’s become cool to be uncool, which is another one of those statements not unlike ‘fashionable to be an outcast’. Am I the only one who noticed this, or is it just my small town in the middle of nowhere, two miles from hell?