h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wake up most days feeling an immense sense of power. (After the coffee of course. Lots of coffee.) I can make a difference today. So striding confidently down the stairs I think of the good I can do today, the rights that I can wrong, all that potential. And then I go to work. There you go an immediate hammer blow to the head.
I am becoming more and more convinced that work and to a far greater degree, school is concerned with one thing only, the crushing of the spirit. What is a uniform or a suit but a subtle tool devised to dampen the personality of the wearer? Once everyone dresses the same they eventually start to do and say things in unison. In the case of Springfield elementary blinking in unison (I love that sound). At roughly the age of four a child with a growing personality is introduced into the education system i.e. a uniform. By the end of school that personality has been replaced by a mindless drone ready for the working world where employers are only too happy to receive these drones as they are the perfect employees. As a result these companies give funding to the school so they can produce more drones. The cycle continues. Our society is doomed! If all we are is a generation of drones then who will take the initiative? True there are those who make it through school and work (being told that they think the rules don't apply to them when in fact that should be true) and who go on to be Initiative People. Is there enough of these people though? What we are left with is a Pre-Hitler scenario, a populace in need of a leader and one twisted individual who has a way with inspiring words and a hint of promise in his eyes. Enter dictatorship.
Hey! That's not a bad idea! Rise oppressed souls! I hold hope for you, for your future. Join together and follow me to a new tomorrow! No? Well, it sure was worth a try though wasn't it?
My point being that our personalities are at stake and those of our children etc. Don't ignore that voice, that potential in the morning, you CAN make a difference, if not to the world at least to yourself and that's just as good.
Me, I'm going to work!

my god is that why I was always in trouble at school! But I beat them blue, you can't keep a good gal down {or a bad one for that matter} and now I am considered an eccentric. Hurry up and write something

gg

considered an eccentric? You say it like its a bad thing!
The only ones with any character around here [earth] are the eccentric ones