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BLaH Ý ß Ý ÜßÜ Ý Ý
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File ÝßÜ Ý ÜÝ ÝßÝÜÝ Written August 15th, 1992
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#024 Ý Ýig Ýong ÜßÝ Ýnd Ý Ýairy
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ÝÜß ÝÜÜÝ ßÜÜßÞ ÜÝ ÞÜ
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Presents
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"Conformity Is Like Cheese"
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³ by ³
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The Baron
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Conformity Is Like Cheese
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Hello there, if you are reading this, which you are, so don't deny it,
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you are probably another one of those people who believe in non
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conformity. Well, let me tell you, no matter how hard you try, you are
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going to conform. You see, conformity is like cheese. No one really goes
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to the store to buy cheese and most people have no real craving for
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cheese, but most of us like it. Those who don't like it still eat it with
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things, such as cheese burgers, macaronia and cheese, and other fine dairy
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products. Even if you never consume cheese you are destined to consume dairy
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products. Every American is. You can however try your darndest to try
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not to.
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So, What's So Bad About Cheese?
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Let me tell you a little story:
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êÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄê
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³ Once there was a man by the name of Joe. Being hungry, he went out to ³
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³ lunch one day at Bob's Grease Palace. Joe ordered a plain hamburger, but ³
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³ when he sat down to eat it,he realized that everyone else was eating cheese ³
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³ burgers. Everyone there knew that cheese burgers were better than plain ³
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³ hamburgers. They didn't quite know why, but they did, and they never ³
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³ questioned why. They all began to wonder why he wasn't eating a cheese ³
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³ burger.Joe became very self-conscious. He knew he wasn't going to see these ³
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³ people again and didn't have any reason to be like them, yet he still went ³
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³ back to the counter and asked for a slice of cheese. He sat down and people ³
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³ went back to their normal routine. They weren't conscious of Joe anymore. ³
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³ Joe wasn't self-conscious anymore. ³
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³ Inside, Joe knew he wanted a plain hamburger, but he didn't want to be ³
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³ self-conscious. The next day Joe went out to lunch again. Once again, ³
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³ people were eating cheese burgers. He knew he could go somewhere else ³
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³ but that would require effort. Bob's Grease Palace was the only place ³
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³ close. He ordered a cheese burger once again and ate it, but he was not ³
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³ truly happy with what he had. ³
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³ Day after day, week after week, and year after year Joe ordered a ³
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³ cheese burger. Eventually, he came to not question it himself and began to ³
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³ actually be glad he was part of the group.He was never self-conscious again.³
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³ Everyday was a cheeseburger day, never a pizza, hot dog or nachos day. ³
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³ Finally,one day his death came,sick of cheese burgers and never having tried³
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³ anything else, and believing he was happy and never being self-conscious. ³
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Poor Joe
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As you can see, Joe never really was happy with himself, but he was
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so afraid of other people wondering about him, staring at him, and
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ridiculing him. It's no fault of his own though. It's human nature for
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people to be cruel towards their fellow man. Joe, being human, did not
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want to be ridiculed. It made him self-conscious. It made him have to
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look at himself and wonder who he really was. He didn't now want that.
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He wanted to be able to go along not having to think about what was
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happening around him. He didn't want people to think about him. He
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wanted to be what he thought was happy. Poor Joe.
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What If We All Ate Cheese Burgers?
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The story of Joe happens on a small scale. There were maybe 20 or 30
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others which we will call cheese-burger-eaters. It doesn't matter what
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their names are. It doesn't matter if they have a name. All that's
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needed is the fact that they're cheese-burger-eaters.
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Well, what if all of us were cheese-burger-eaters? We'd all think we
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were happy because we wouldn't have to be self-conscious. We wouldn't
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have to think for ourselves. All we'd have to do were make sure we ate
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our cheese burgers.
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What if there was a group of people who WEREN'T cheese burger eaters?
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What if these people would eat a DIFFERENT food everyday? They might
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have pizza one day, spaghetti the next, and even lobster the next. We
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could look at them and be interested and even jealous, but, we know we
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have to eat our cheese burgers. We also know that our happiness depends
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on the eating of our cheese burgers. If this group of people were to
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spread their ideas among us we'd be plunged into chaos. We all might eat
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a different thing each day and we'd have to THINK about what we ate. The
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thinking wouldn't be done for us. We'd have to be self-conscious. This
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group of people would pose quite a serious threat to our happiness and
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we'd try everything within our power to eliminate the threat. It's human
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nature.
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So now all of us are trying to eliminate this group of people who's
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crime is nothing more than non-conformity. We might try anything from
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trying to convert them to our way, to forcing them into our way, to even
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killing them if neither of the latter was successful.
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Do I Detect A Parallel?
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As I'm sure you must know, the period period of time before and
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during World War II was the time of some of the greatest atrocities ever
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concieved. I'm sure you know I'm talking about the reign of Hitler and
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the Nazi party in Germany. During this time some of the greatest crimes
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against humanity were commited.
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The success of Hitler's mad idea of conformity for all was unprecedented.
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Ridicule and violence were carried out against others for the simple crime of
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non-conforming. Anyone who was not the same, did not conform, was a target.
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Hitler was the crux of the idea which all good Aryan Germans were to
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follow. No one ever questioned. No one was conscious of anyone else. No
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one was self-conscious. There was no reason to be. Everyone was the same.
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They all looked up to Hitler, and he did the thinking for them. You could
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say he was the big cheese.
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What's Wrong With Being Self-Conscious?
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Next time you're in public, do something out of the ordinary. Start
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dancing if you feel like it. If you feel like signing a song, do. No one
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can stop you. If you're lucky enough to live in the U.S. or any other
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country where freedom of speech is protected, you may. If you don't, do
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something about it! If you want to read a book with a lot of swears in
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it, go for it. If you want to scream at the top of your lungs in
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frustration, I won't stop you. People may look at you funny and make you
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self-conscious, but, WHO CARES? You are your own person. If you aren't
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SELF-conscious, how do you expect to be people/community/world
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conscious? We live in a big world. If you can't look at yourself on the
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inside, then you do not deserve to live in it.
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It's O.K. to be self-conscious. Do what you can so people
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look/glance/stare at you. Use it as a technique of reminding yourself
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that you are someone. You have to know that you exist and that you are
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more than just another person sitting around eating his cheese burger. If
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you are unique in some way, say you can whistle through your nose or
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your middle name is Horatio, flaunt it, don't hide it. Do whatever you
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can to make you, YOU. Don't be someone else. If you aren't yourself then
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you are no one.
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Remember:
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Don't be afraid of the unknown. Don't be afraid of what others think,
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don't be afraid of what you think, don't be afraid of yourself. For
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God's sake, THINK, and don't let others think for you. Your self-conscience
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is much too important to give to others.
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Thank you for your time,
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The Baron
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Finally.. a GOOD tfile.. _I_ should go to England for 3 weeks..
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BLaH <sigh>ts
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Yay to the Baron for coming back to america and taking somewhat of an interest
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in BLaH, a group spawned from his mind.. go team.
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{---Shower Line... singing and embracing, embracing and singing...------------}
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