Conformity rant...

[Betamax001]

Did you remind this teacher that she was just another brick in the wall?

We don't need no education.

Just remember MrEco, you cant have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!

[MrEco]

To be fair to the Youtube guy, MrEco didn't really represent his words accurately. Here's what he actually said:

because if the only thing that you could see in her is her looks then you are blinded by society and you're more fictional than her, characters like her are just a few and they are always judged wrong by pseudofans based on their "looks". Maybe you will understand this, maybe you wont, anyway have a nice day and god bless you friend

I can understand MrEco's conflation of the "non-conformist" teacher of his with this guy, but notice the key qualifier "only". And yeah, if you only like her because of her looks, than you're pretty superficial, which is what the uploader means by "fictional" I presume. I also agree with him that getting something "just for looks" is pretty indicative of a shallow lamer, rather than someone who plays the game for the gameplay it offers. How many people here proclaim gameplay to be far more important than graphics, yet all I see here is people defending the idea that it's ok to like something based on graphics only. Double standard?

I see your point. But an entire video game is a lot different case from an individual character. The majority of games are not able to create characters with interesting personalities. Fighting games are even more guilty of this. So sometimes looks are the only thing available to judge a character by, especially if you're a person who hasn't even played the game yet.

[Erik_Twice]

"Be non-conformist! Listen to what I say instead".

It's a very common problem. The means become the goal.

[J T]

Did you remind this teacher that she was just another brick in the wall?

MrEco, sometimes people are self-righteous, sanctimonious assholes and their opinions are based more on their need to self-congratulate than they are on the true state of reality. I wouldn't sweat what either of these people say because I really think they're criticizing you to just stroke themselves. It's nothing to take too personal, it's just immensely obnoxious.

[Czernobog]

Did you remind this teacher that she was just another brick in the wall?

We don't need no education.

We don't need no thought control.

[AppleQueso]

Did you remind this teacher that she was just another brick in the wall?

We don't need no education.

We don't need no thought control.

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

[J T]

We don't need no education.

We don't need no thought control.

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Hey! Teacher! Leave MrEco alone!

[Bikeage]

It's like an event that happened to me back in 10th grade English class. We were reading Fahrenheit 451 and the teacher was telling us how the book is basically one big piece of symbolism for conformity and anti-conformity. The bitch then decided to ask everyone in the class who watches TV to raise their hand. Everyone raised their fucking hands. She then proceeded to "educate us" on the fact that all of us were apparently conformists because we chose to watch TV. According to her if we were non-conformists we would spend all of our free time playing outside in the sun. Things like sports or even something as simple as throwing a frisbee. Then as "homework" (It wasn't actually for a grade thankfully) she told us to all go home and not touch a TV, music playing device, or computer for the rest of the day. She told us that if we wanted to not "conform with society" we had to spend time with our family or go outside.

I don't understand the hostility towards your English teacher. Seems like she was just using a generalization to make a point, that on some level society has conformed us all to one standard or another.

I also read Fahrenheit 451 in 10th grade, 20 years ago, and was so moved by it's message that I finished it the day it was assigned, and went on to write an epic paper about the book and its meaning. Now I was a terribly lazy student, I never contributed anything or did homework, much less completed 3000+ word essays, but it was like reading Fahrenheit 451 and being given the task to interpret the author's message motivated me like nothing else before.

I thought my essay was sublime, full of insight and lifting the veil of hypocrisy from society, posing tough questions that would force the reader to take stock of their own life.... and it received a C+. Know who got an A? The cute cheerleader with bubblegum for brains who wrote exactly what the teacher wanted to read, a superficial synopsis with dash of personal insight at the end, all put down in breezy, loopy cursive.

There were two lessons learned. One, no matter how loudly you yell you can't force someone to listen, and two, standing out in a crowd can make you a beacon... or a target. Go against the grain, but not so deeply that it shreds you to pieces.

[noiseredux]

Hey! Teacher! Leave MrEco alone!

ah! You beat me to it!

[wip3outguy7]

Mai is worth a block/ban.