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Poll: Are you a conformist? what does it mean to conform anyway?

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I guess I would have to agree that true non conformity is genuine, and many attempts at non conformity are really just another brand of conformity.

It is probably impossible to be a "pure" true non conformist, in that one cannot always be genuine and still survive in this culture. I think several of my co workers are idiots, but I am nice to them because I have to work with them on a regular basis. I am conforming with society's expected norms of behavior in this way.
 


<< Sir Fredrick, just be genuine about conforming to societal rules. It's not a bad thing to be nice is it? 😀 >>



I suppose it's not a bad thing to be nice, but sometimes it would be a very good thing to kick them in the head. 😉 I suppose a society with no conformity to any social rules would be anarchy, and it would be chaotic, violent, disturbing and detrimental. So "real" non conformity had better allow for some conformity to the basics, or we're screwed.
Of course, it seems that non conformity by nature cannot allow or disallow anything if it is real non conformity.
So, if we are genuine in our actions, and we are doing what we believe to be right in a given situation because we have analyzed it and come to that conclusion naturally on our own, rather than just because that's what we're supposed to think, then perhaps we can say that we have transcended conformity. Perhaps then we have even transcended non conformity. Does it even matter?
 


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<< I'm so not a conformist that I refuse to take part in your poll, just show me the answers baby! >>

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By selecting that answer you have of course participated in my poll, and conformed to my expectations by selecting that answer as a valid response. Unless, I suppose, you were lying when you chose that.
 


<< By selecting that answer you have of course participated in my poll, and conformed to my expectations by selecting that answer as a valid response. Unless, I suppose, you were lying when you chose that. >>



Yes i admit, i lied :disgust:
 


<< Non-conformity is not a conformity of a different kind. Conformity of any kind is conformity. >>

Every action has an opposite reaction. No matter what you reject as a 'non-conformist', you are inherently conforming to something else (an opposing principle). Non-conformity itself is conformity to the negation of some perceived establishment as someone already pointed-out.

<< A non conformist is what he is without notice of how what he is relates to conformity or non conformity. The big inherent flaw you worry about is a flaw in conformists. A non comformist is simply genuine. It's that quality that is so rare. >>

The non-conformist negates what he perceives to be 'conformity'. Without some perceived conformity there is no non-conformist. Non-conformists are DEFINED by conformity itself, albeit the antithesis of whatever he deems 'conformist'. This is why anti-establishment cultures are without principle. They exist solely to be subversive or to 'rouse the rabble'.

Unless I am to understand that you aren't referring to non-conformity as a quasi-political statement. When I see 'non-conformist', I always think of it as a quasi-political statement. It is important to 'define' our terms.

I suppose one type of non-conformist can be defined simply as 'one who does not go along just to get along'. e.g. A person who listens to certain bands because he likes them, not because that music is 'popular'. Or, more importantly, a person who does not reject certain genres of music merely because his peers don't like it. A person who goes to college because that's what he wants to do, not because that's what all his peers were doing and so he felt it was also expected of him. A person who wears a certain style of clothes because they like it, not because that's what is 'in'. A person who obeys the law because he values the law, not because that's what society expects of him. A person who votes for a political candidate because they have made an informed decision, not because 'that's who my union told me to vote for'.
 
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