Posted by phil15 on February 4, 2001, at 14:24:17
In reply to Re: Wounded Healers » allisonm, posted by Todd on February 4, 2001, at 13:22:58
I remember a while ago when my friend mike and I first discovered that there were drones and non-drones, we definatly abused the words drone and non drone to make ourselves feel superior. At school if someone was acting "dronish" we'd be like "yep, hes a drone!" or if someone annoyed us we'de use it as like "Oh your just a drone so u have no importance anyway". It was really great... for like a month. Then we got more people involved in the thing and some of our "dronish" friends starting disliking us. And losing friends is not worth making yourself feel superior.
I still sometimes will classify people as drones in the back of my head at times, but i definatly don't express it. Because that would be working against a happier place that needs to be achieved. As one of you said, i can't remember who, that we shouldn't seperate ourselfs from these drones like i did, but we should "enlighten" them. A drone isn't a drone forever. A person can always change their lifestyle and outlook in life as in "dj's" quote said.
Anyway, they are out there, but they are neither superior nor inferior. They might have more fun or get alot accompished, and many other qualities that they do have, which is a good + thing. But then again, the non drones have their positive in questioning and deeply thinking about things, etc.
The only thing that i was arguing about the drones with, is that they tend to achieve a "superior social status". But really that isn't really important and nondrones should be happy with themselves too, even is some of them are not "socially with it".
I guess the reason i posted this here in the first place was to show other "nondrones" that there are MANY others like themselves, and that we should feel free to express our feelings and ideas.
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