What does being an individual mean? I’m sure you have heard this affect before, either witnessing it on television or hearing it from someone you know. They say, “I am not like anyone else…I am my own self; an individual.” But is this the case? This topic was brought to my attention by a video I watched in class. The video presented the notion that individualism was not so individual after all. I thought to myself, what is this guy talking about? I know who I am as a person and I know there is no one else like me. The speaker in the video, a Professor Corey Anton, developed the idea that we all say we are individuals, we go out and buy clothes that we think make us individuals, we listen to music that we think makes us individuals and we even do things like not shop at Wal-Mart or only wear clothes made from hemp because we think it makes us different, helping us stand out from all of the conformist freaks. As each of us begins to board the train of individualism, and time passes, we find ourselves realizing that we are not so alone, and that it is becoming less and less different to be this so called individual. Why now has the want to be different lost its credibility? Society and the media are constantly selling us the idea of just “being yourself ” or “it’s all about the individual.” We find ourselves pressured and saying to ourselves, “be different, be different,” with the end result being a ranting group of people that are different yet all the same. Same in the sense of craving attention for being different and all wanting to stand out, yet we stand out as a collection of people toward one goal. As the philosophical Lil Wayne once said, “Baby, I’m me, so who are you? You’re not me, you’re not me.” Oh yes I am Weezy…oh yes I am.