We live in a commercial culture. The media has brainwashed our youth that individual self expression is limited fashion and body art. Our culture no longer places much value on imagination and its expression on the printed page or canvas or any of a dozen other forms. With today's youth what you see on the outside is what you get, not much imagination or intellectual gravity on the inside.
Isn't this the same brainwashing that you if an anarchist and outside the mainstream that you wear black. So your conforming to be a non-confomist. Did I even say that right?