Posted by allisonm on February 3, 2001, at 20:44:15
In reply to drones and non drones, posted by Phil15 on February 2, 2001, at 20:58:20
Phil,
I think I agree with some of what you're saying. I don't think depression is created and manifested by drones, and I'm not sure that I subscribe to your writing re religions and astral planes, but I do think too much and I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about people you call drones.
To me, they go through each day and their entire lives, really, just doing what everyone else does without thinking about it or questioning it. In fact, they are usually so interested in being like everyone else that they make a point of not questioning. I drive by new housing tracts full of them on my way to work. They live in these boxes, which are like every other box on the street, all in differing shades of beige vinyl siding because that's what everyone else has. They have 2.5 kids and 2 late-model cars (one might be a minivan) in their two-car garages. The bushes around their houses are the kind you find at the home improvement superstore that everyone else buys. They are content with their lives (from what I can tell). I work with people like this. Some are my friends. They do things because that's what you do. They don't really think whether they personally want to do it; it's just what you do.
For the most part, they're nice folk but they don't think a lot and they aren't too imaginative. At work, if I bring up what they might consider a "weird" topic, they just kind of stand there -- with deer in the headlights kind of stares and half smiles on their faces, not really knowing how to respond.
They are the type of people if I were to get into a discussion about depression (and I never would), wouldn't know what I was talking about. They could never conceive of anyone wanting to commit suicide. It just doesn't register. They are too busy living their lives like they are supposed to. They don't notice things like sunsets, or the waxing moon, the first frost on the grass -- frost just makes them shudder and complain that winter is coming. They don't see the beauty in it. They don't watch birds much. They don't notice when they migrate. They're too fixed on getting a better raise at work, getting a better job, retiring in Florida. They don't pay too much attention nor have much opinion about what's going on elswhere in the world because it doesn't affect them.
I hope I haven't offended anyone, but these are some of my observations that I've thought a lot about for a long time. How can people live their lives like this? Is it really living? What is living? What am I living?
Just some thoughts.
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