American people are very independent of one another. There are enough opportunities for people to carve out their own life as they see fit, and there is nobody who can actually tell them they can't because then you have the power to just chase that person away and it won't make you any poorer.

As soon as you go into other places around the world, your cooperation with others is what gets you further in life. There are people who "own" things and you have to kiss up to get it. One of these I find, is friendship, and it's hard to believe but it's true. The cool people and people who define the norm of society "own" friendship. You have to "qualify" to get it by ticking all the little boxes that makes you "normal". It happens in a country where people feel there are limited stocks of something, or sometimes you just get power hungry control freaks that create that perception. America has always been a place where people believe their country is bountiful, and there is more than enough to share with everyone, and that attitude has definitely hit home with the people too, because Americans don't believe another person's individuality is going to cost them anything, and they're right of course. But, you get countries where people are encouraged to "work together" which is usually nothing more than a smokescreen for some ulterior motive. Be that as it may though, true individualism is hardly encouraged. Individualism as portrayed by the media is a man slipping on a pink t-shirt, or creating some new fashion fad. That's not individualism. It's fake.

Normal people try to portray themselves as different. I am different. I was born different and I was sculpted by life to be different. Their interpretation of different is a watered-down, fake a-- attempt and will never compare to anything I experienced being truly different.

It's not a nice life. It's not a beautiful thing. People don't come up to you and say "that's cool". Being different...it's ugly. My left-field gifts are not pretty, they are not designed to put a smile on somebody's face or make me popular. They are hardcore. It's not the light beer normal people come up with, it's strong spirits. Look at the truly gifted artists, their paintings are not beautiful, they're strong, expressionist, and highly complex, the songs musicians come up with, they don't have fairy-tale lyrics, they are full of pain and expression.

And that's the cost - the cost is popularity with people. People want things that are pretty and easy and tells them everything they want to hear, and shows them everything their eyes want to see. They don't want real, they want what appears to be best, by their standards and the stuff they believe like sheep.