Originally Posted by ARTelevision

The worst thing I have ever done was to be influenced by sociopathic "outsider" artist types and commercial media into thinking that I was a unique rebel who who thinks, talks, and acts like a "cool" or "hip" or "alternative" or "edgy" (and so on) person - as defined by others. I bought the same nonsense - hook line and sinker - that I see the overwhelming majority of young people - in fact peopleof every age - buying - especially ones who think they are most unique - because they are so much like anti-heros they wish they were.

All this absurd behavior resulted in my being a soft-headed, romantic, self-involved, and hypocritical big baby for my entire adolescence and for the extended post-adolesence that contemporary society fosters in just about everyone. For me that was until I was about 35.