Because Conformity is Overrated.

In a society that forces both individuality and conformity down our throats, it's no wonder the two are starting to look the same. Everyone tries to sever the similarities with the previous generation, spitting out a new trend to follow, a new disease, a new slow way to poison yourself and still be cool while doing it. We're all slaves to the trends of our peers. We fight for the freedom to speak our minds, but when we open our mouth we don't have anything new to say, anything radical or individual. Why? We're facing the same problem generations before us have faced. In an effort to be an individual, and still be accepted, we thrive on labels. Bisexual. Straight. Gay. Male. Female. Athlete. Normal. Freak. They're unavoidable. Every single time we're asked to describe ourselves, we mumble out the same paragraph people have been reciting for years. We try to make ourselves seem better, stand out, but we're really just conforming to another group: the anti-conforming conformers.
Individuality is overrated. In an attempt to be an individual, you end up conforming to a group of non-conformists. Individuality isn't sold at hot topic, or in your lovely neighborhood urban grocer, or hidden under the 6 layers of eyeliner you cake on to make yourself feel better about your lack of motivation and your general discontent with life.
I have a dream started off one of the most inspirational and quoted speeches of the previous generation. Those four words are something everyone should use at some point in their life. Perhaps your dream is something simpler than ending racism and world hunger, but there's nothing more pure then the desire to achieve something. Perhaps I'm a simple person. All I aspire to do is to be accepted for who I am, and not have my opinions disregarded because of some close-minded bias someone has against women, gays, or anything else they feel the need to judge me based on.
Everyone has something important to say, but in a world as busy and self-absorbed as ours, it's no wonder we're run by the media and government.