Conformity in society.

Today I observed students at my school, we had an assembly and as I looked around a few things caught my eye. The first was the fact that every single girl was wearing the exact same thing like a thousand clones re printed over and over. The second was how the students listened to every single thing the teachers would say "line up" "sit down", it doesn't end. It got me thinking if we at the tender age of five must conform to a totalarianistic approach to learning rather than allowing the children the right to become there own self then could that possibly be what's wrong with society? We conform, we conformed for Afghanistan and we conformed for Iraq and now we are conforming for Syria. We are again like the students and the political leaders are the teachers they demand the same things "line up" "sit down" and we obey. Syria, is the home of resistance, we have resisted the west time and time again and like the big bad principal America developed a grudge, a sense of hatred towards the country. Maybe we have learnt how to say yes, learnt to assimilate ourselves into the beliefs of society rather, than to explore our own ideas- political or not. At school we are all expected to look the same, dress the same and to a certain extent told to think and behave the same. So how can we doubt that as we grow older that the submissive button in our brains wouldn't go off every once in a while? When we are bombarded with lies and war propaganda, how can we seriously doubt that we have become a society of indoctrination and brainwashing? This rule however does not apply to all, but people often believe what the world tells them. The world says "Al-Assad is a tyrant" and fabricated footage is shown on television and "experts" pretend they care when truly it is a game of vested interest that people sadly believe. This generation is one of information- do not conform to the government, to the leaders or to the media. Learn to find out the truth or find two sides of the story and decide based on INFORMATION not based on LIES spread by the media and by our Governments'. The truth is that Syria is not only the Middle East's only chance, but the entire world's. We have resisted since Turkish occupation and during french occupation. When they created a Western State (Israel) in the middle of an Arabic world we continued to say no, now America wants our natural resources and the world must say no.

Lisa.