Analysis Of 'Totally Like Whatever, You Know'

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Todays society has begun to become more and more transfixed on basically following the leader. People see what their favorite actor or actress is doing on tv or social media and decides they want to be like that. Most people want to be just like someone else. Individuality is fading faster and faster it seems. With the rise of social media, that has became more and more evident. In the poem, “Totally like whatever, you know?” Taylor Mali shows exactly that today’s society is transfixed on being like someone else. It explains how everything is a question now and how no one has their own ideas anymore. The quote “I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?” really resonates with me. Today everyone just wants to be liked and …show more content…

There is plenty of people I know, including myself, who could care less what Kim Kardashian is doing or wearing or what any other movie star is doing for that matter. I don’t care about changing who I am to make me “popular” or “cool”, but thats just who I am. The poem, “Totally like whatever, you know?”, also talks on saying stuff to just sound cool. Mali says “Declarative sentences—so‐called because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true,okay, as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not—have been infected by a totally hip and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?” We need to get away from this, and just say what ever we think. Theres plenty of people who will like you just because of how you naturally are. Everyone in todays world needs to read “Totally like whatever, you know?”, so they can really see how what is going on is effecting us.Mali advocates for us not to be totally mindless zombies. We need to each have something that makes us different from each other and sets us apart. We need to quit idolizing everyone coming and going, people need to realize that they are fine the way they are and shouldn’t waste there time on being someone they are not. Just do what makes your happy, and you will be

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