Kilts and Self-Identity

[Alan H]

I find it interesting that so many of us declare with fervid intensity...I am ME!

...and in some variant (not all of us did this)...I am not not one of the sheeple!

Uh, you know what strikes me about that?....who are the sheeple?

Oh, right...those guys that wear pants. Or those guys that wear ties. Or those guys that have jobs where you have to **fill in the blank**. Or those guys who are married, or those guys who went to UCLA, or those guys that wear Black Watch, or anyone who drives an SUV, is blonde and owns a golden retriever... or whatever. Honestly I don't know very many sheeple. Maybe it' s just where I live and work, but I don't. I'm not sure I would recognize a sheeple if I saw one.

I certainly know people who go through life without asking very many questions, but I'm not at all sure that's the definition of "sheeple". I know people who didn't ask questions at one point in their lives, but ask questions at other times. Are they sheeple? Once a sheeple, always a sheeple? I kind of doubt that all the people who are sheeple choose a uniform mode of dressing, either. I *suspect* in hours of despair, that there might possibly be kilted sheeple.

Would someone be so kind as to explain to me who the sheeple are?

and yes, my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek, here

NEXT!!!

I am also intrigued and rather relieved that I didn't see too many people declare loudly and often that they don't care a fig what anyone else thinks about them, EVER. insert banging fist on table, here, and possibly loud grunting, too.. There's a fine line that we all tread, between being a sheeple and being an arrogant jerk. Most of the people I know who proclaim loudly and often that they don't care what anybody thinks are arrogant jerks. It seems as though the vast majority of us tread the sheeple/jerk line reasonably well.

FINALLY

I'm also intrigued at how many people responded to this thread and didn't say anything at all about whether kilts and kilt-wearing had anything to do with their self image. That was, after all, My whole point. I'm not angry or upset at that, just intrigued at how many people either wrote down a list of things theat they feel "define them"...or said "I am ME" and little else, or cracked a joke...but nowhere in there was a mention of kilts.

Hmm.... I have no clue what that all means, but I find it interesting.

[staticsan]

I'm also intrigued at how many people responded to this thread and didn't say anything at all about whether kilts and kilt-wearing had anything to do with their self image. That was, after all, My whole point. I'm not angry or upset at that, just intrigued at how many people either wrote down a list of things theat they feel "define them"...or said "I am ME" and little else, or cracked a joke...but nowhere in there was a mention of kilts.

No, kilts, don't define me. Or, to put it another way, take away my kilts and you won't change me.

But kilts (and skirts) are an expression of what I am, however. It's very hard to define how you would be that you would choose to go kilted, I must add. In today's society, there is a certain streak of individuality and non-conformist that would need to be there to wear a kilt - and I say that remembering my audience, because we can 'retreat' into X Marks so easily and forget that our desire to be apart and the common way we've chosen to do that - i.e. kilts - is what has brought us together.

Wade.

[corbinj]

I say we shear the sheeple, put them back out to pasture. Then spin and weave the ultimate definition of what we are or are not from the wool. After we have spun and woven we can dye the cloth to our own unique pattern and color, the kind that identifies us as individuals. Then we can wear it out and around to show how truly unique we are, whether pants or kilt or shorts or whatever. Wait, why is everyone bald? Because we all collectively are someones sheeple, to be shorn and pastured in some catagorical pasture on someones neatly catagorized farm of opinion. I think we are sneeches, some with stars some without, but all sneeches just the same. Read the book or reread it it explains everything. and to theo le sieg (dr.seuss) sorry just the same. see ya.