"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"
writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"

writes:


The song is really an anti-conformity ditty, loosely derived from
Malvina
Reynolds' "Little Boxes" and others of that ilk.

Yet, quite prophetic when looking back now.

How?

Oh, I think many today--even me--are quite involved and disolved with
keeping ourselves happy with material things. While I am not a keep up
with
the Jones' kind of person (i.e., unaffected by "status" symbols), I do
find
amusement in "things" more than I used to. I used to be happy just to
watch
ants...

Ah - good explanation! And observation...

Here's another one for ya...

From 1972-1976 I attended a large urban university. The big thing back
then
was "nonconformity" to the rules of the "establishment", particularly in
manners of slang, clothes and haircut.

After a while, though, it became clear that we'd simply traded one form of
conformity for another, and that we "nonconformists" pretty much dressed
alike,
talked alike, and had similar haircuts.

The university gave us more than schooling - we were actually educated,
often
by experiences that seemed minor at the time.

73 de Jim, N2EY


Absolutely!! I was one "of those" (nonconformists). Actually, I still
concentrate on being so--it doesn't come naturally any more GRIN. If
everyone is planting roses, I'll plant petunias. If all women like
diamonds, I like opals (and that is actually the truth).

Anyway, you're right about the more we tried to be different, the more we
were the same. Uh, but we were the same together

Kim W5TIT