The problem of conformity

Freebase Dali · 04-23-2010, 02:45 PM

Everyone conforms to something. Clothes, hair, food... not to mention ideals, political stances, morals... It's necessary to subscribe to something, unless we're deluded enough to think we're a product of our own making individually.
I personally don't think general conformity is a bad thing at all. The issue really lies with what we're conforming to and whether it's a negative force in our lives or not.
The challenge is caring enough to use insight and experience to analyze these things we adopt so we can make the right decisions for ourselves.

In context with a bunch of women shaving their heads to save the environment, I think that's a little misguided as to the effectiveness that will ever have... but it's obviously more of a statement and less of a "solution", which probably the wrong way to go about things.

04-23-2010, 02:45 PM	#6 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Everyone conforms to something. Clothes, hair, food... not to mention ideals, political stances, morals... It's necessary to subscribe to something, unless we're deluded enough to think we're a product of our own making individually. I personally don't think general conformity is a bad thing at all. The issue really lies with what we're conforming to and whether it's a negative force in our lives or not. The challenge is caring enough to use insight and experience to analyze these things we adopt so we can make the right decisions for ourselves. In context with a bunch of women shaving their heads to save the environment, I think that's a little misguided as to the effectiveness that will ever have... but it's obviously more of a statement and less of a "solution", which probably the wrong way to go about things. __________________