The Stoner Cliche

As fond as I am with weed, the stoner persona that comes along sorta pisses me off... and the thing is, I listen to Phish, Pink Floyd, Hendrix...but it has nothing to do with weed or them smoking! But people just assume that I like \'em cuz they\'re hippies? Fuck hippies*...(excluding the above mentioned musical masters)
I also hate words like \'dank\', and \'shwagg\'.

*If anyone was offended by that, don\'t take it personally, it\'s just the whole hippie thing kinda bothers me. Some of my friends are hippies, I don\'t judge them on that factor alone... : O

 

dude, let who ever do their own thing, why should you care about how they act? you be yourself, and they\'ll be themselfs, easy as that...

 

Sorry, but I can\'t just ignore how people act, some people just piss me off. I mean it\'s not like I\'d do anything about it if its not really affecting me, but some stuff just annoys me...

 

true. anyways i\'m glad to say that i don\'t fall under the stoner cliche

 

which one would you supposedly fall into? or.. did you be creative and make your own?? um dude, your getting sterotyped just as much as your giving it out. theres probably a bunch of people who smoke pot and act just like you do on these subjects, so i suppose you yourself fall into a cliche as well...

and i totally understand you just wanting to rant about it, but you shouldnt think that your above them in some way. could so happen that they\'re dressing/acting that way to deviate from the type of smoker you are...

i skateboard, and smoke pot... i do them because its fun, not because someone else said they were. go ahead and label me, im doing the same to you! not even intentionally all the time, its just human habit...

 

who doesnt want to feel like they fit in? guess you cant blame them in a way...

btw, im really arguing just for the sake of arguing..

 

I\'m confused about the Stoner Cliche. I didn\'t know one existed. An overwhelming majority of the stoners that I\'ve met over the last several decades do not easily lend themselves to stereotyping. People from all different backgrounds get high often enough to be categorized as stoners, yet for many, the similarities end there. If \"wearing hemp\" and owning \"30 live phish CD\'s\" is the stereotype of today, then it would seem that most stoners aren\'t stereotypical.

As for my own ability to fit into the Cliche, I dare say I\'m a complete non conformist. I don\'t wear hemp clothing -- too much temptation to strip and smoke my shorts! And without fear of any sort of admonishment, I can easily say that I\'ve never knowingly listened to anything by Phish... while at the same time I can say that I\'ve attended quite a few Dead Shows in years past. I\'ve worn tie-dyed clothing, even some that I\'ve tied and dyed myself. I\'ve had long hair and buzz cuts. I\'ve thrived at discos as well as at Dead Shows. I\'ve gotten high with celebrities and hobos, housewives and dykes, nellie queens and butch marines (and even a couple of nellie marines!), mensa members and high school dropouts, the upper class and the lower class and everything in between. And for the life of me, no matter how much I try, I just can\'t seem to attach a stereotype to such a diverse group of people.

My suggestion to Little Wing, the one who seems most perturbed by the Stoner Cliche, is to learn to focus on other personality traits that are more appealing. For many years now, it\'s been my belief that everyone... and I mean EVERYONE... has something, some trait, some story to tell, or some hidden talent that I can connect with. Of course, the connection will only be made if the other person is willing to make the connection with you. If you search hard enough, even the most dispicable person has something that you can connect with. Instead of accepting the first impression as the final impression, dig a bit deeper and I can almost guarantee (except for this one small fact: there are NO guarantees in Life!) that you\'ll find some point of connection that will be worthy of your time.

Instead of remaining pissed off at these people, forgive them for not meeting your ever so narrow standards. Then give them the chance to alter your first impression. It\'s not healthy to continue being pissed off, especially without making an attempt to alter that which is pissing you off.

One of the most awe inspiring abilities of the human species is that which allows it to act and think outside the bouds of animal instinct. It\'s instinctive to stereotype. It\'s human to go beyond instinct and expand the possibilities.

Oops... have I said too much?

 

This brings up an interesting point, because let\'s say you actually like the way tye-dye looks (I think it\'s pretty neat) or let\'s say you like dreads. if you were to see a person who has dreads of wears tye-dye do you automatically look down upon them? I mean sure you could ask them why they wear such a thing, but whether it\'s because they want to fit in or because they actually like it, they\'re going to say \"because I like it\"

It\'s better the hang out with them for about 30 mins or so. Or better yet get them high, the way they act high will definately tell you whether or not they are poseurs or not.


But then again, I\'m high, so maybe I\'m just overthinking this.

 

Ok I have no basis for comparision, I didn\'t smoke in HS. In fact I didn\'t drink either. I didn\'t really do much of anything come to think about it.



But I do know the clique feeling that HS can have. It does suck, but most of those people once they leave will find out what they actually like to do and will stop being the poseurs that they were in HS. I don\'t know if this is what you\'re getting at, but it\'s an interesting point nonetheless.

 

I\'m just me. Don\'t worry about it, man. Just be you. Concerning yourself with other\'s selected persona, apparently, only causes you aggrevation. So just live and let live.