Om Malik: "As the technology industry became the cultural zeitgeist, it became necessary to advertise to the world that you were part of the tech set. And the easiest way to do so was through a uniform."
What Malik fails to note in this article is that dress has always signalled that you belong to the group:
"Grey suited business men pissing against the wall."
It is just, in this time of individual truth, it is more insidious.
#conformity #nonconformity #ingroup
A quotation from Henry Commager
What happens when a state tries to purge its state universities or a community tries to purge its public schools of alleged subversives? […] What happens is the demoralization and eventual corruption of the school system.
This is not a momentary or even temporary affair; it is something the consequences of which may be felt for years. The search for subversives results in the intimidation of the independent, the original, the imaginative, and the experimental-minded. It discourages independence of thought in teachers and students alike. It discourages the reading of books that may excite the suspicion of some investigator or some Legionnaire. It discourages the discussion of controversial matters in the classroom, for such discussion may be reported, or misreported, and cause trouble. It creates a situation where first-rate minds will not go into teaching or into administration and where students therefore get poor teaching.
In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. In the long run it will create a generation not only deprived of liberty but incapable of enjoying liberty.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1953-02-21), “Is Freedom Really Necessary?” Saturday Review
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A quotation from Charles Evans Hughes
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (1862-1948) American statesman, politician, Supreme Court Justice (1910-1916, 1930-1941)
Speech (1925-06-17), Battle of Bunker Hill 150th Anniversary, Faneuil Hall, Boston Massachusetts
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesevanshughes #coexistence #difference #freedom #heterodoxy #liberty #tolerance #variation #nonconformity
Pathologizing children and teenagers: https://www.aurianneor.org/pathologizing-children-and-teenagers/
#ADHD #adolescents #antidepressant #aurianneor #burnout #child-tyrant #children,#classstruggle #crisis #diagnosis #education #epidemiologicalstudies #goal #hyperactivity #individualdifferences #mildAsperger #nononsense #nonconformism #nonconformity #pathologies #pauperization #personalitytests #predepression #school #socialclasses #SSRI #stress #success #technocracy #Teenagerebellion #teenagers
To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” Polemic Magazine
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/46536/
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I have not loved the World, nor the World me;
I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
To its idolatries a patient knee,
Nor coined my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud
In worship of an echo: in the crowd
They could not deem me one of such — I stood
Among them, but not of them — in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3, st. 113 (1816)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76282/
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Being a #Christian inevitably means discomfort in this world. #Jesus proclamation of the kingdom entailed #tribulation and the #cross bearing (John 16:31; Matt. 16:24). He offers comfort, but never says we won’t suffer. Why?Because following him means #Nonconformity with the ways of this world (Matt. 24:9). This is a missing element in much Gospel #proclamation today.
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#Individuality #originality #thinkdifferent #standout #bebold #trailblazer #freethinker #courage #selfexpression #independence #uniqueness #daretolead #nonconformity #betruetoyou
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they consider such departures as a criticism of themselves. They will pardon much unconventionality in a man who has enough jollity and friendliness to make it clear, even to the stupidest, that he is not engaged in criticizing them.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/16303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #conformity #convention #criticism #Nonconformity
A quotation from Barrie, James:
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WENDY. Where do you live?
PETER. Second to the right and then straight on till morning.
WENDY. What a funny address!
PETER. No, it isn’t.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/73435/
#quote #quotes #quotation #address #class #difference #nonconformity #shame
"Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers."
~ from The Neurotic’s Notebook: How to be anxious, hostile, and defensive while loving every miserable minute of it
by Mignon McLaughlin, 1963
This quip is charming. But besides the blanket statement "every society," there are plenty of past troublemakers who are forgotten; sometimes for good reasons. Anyway, the book title is a clue to what she really believed.
#cynicism #cynical #nonconformity #nonconformist #sociology #quotes #quoteoftheday #goodtrouble #qotd #historicalmemory
1998 Untamed Youth
"In a world of conformity and expectations, one young woman dares to break free from the shackles of societal norms.
Her journey is a dance of freedom, passion, and rebellion.
Embracing her unique style, she challenges the status quo, embodying the essence of youthful rebellion in this mesmerizing image."
https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/04-April1998-Page-005.png
#photography #illustration #madman #nocontext #sfw #YouthCulture #Fashion #Music #Nonconformity #Self-expression #Photography
Bohemian Mystery Portrait with Luminous Blue Eyes
Captured in the heart of a bohemian bairro, this enigmatic portrait paints a vision of untamed nonconformity Mesmerizing blue eyes lead you down a mysterious path
See More Seeds: https://aidyslexic.raupulus.dev/collections/show/1575
#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #portrait #bohemian #blue-eyes #mystery #nonconformity #urban #Kienan-Lafferty
The Iraqi Parliament has passed a law punishing homosexuals with 10 to 15 years in prison; transgender, gender-nonconforming people with one to three years in prison; and anyone who “promotes” homosexuality with seven years.
Are we seriously living in the 21st Century?
#news #journalism #press #lgbtq #prison #nonconformity @mastodonindians
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/29157/
#quote #quotes #quotation #boldness #conformity #disobedience #exception #nonconformity #rules #society #shamelessness #brazenness
Awesome symptom no. 10
Non-conformism
To an autistic person, 'because everyone else is doing it' is not a good reason for doing something! We tend to lack that sort of 'herd mentality', usually entirely.
I see this as a positive - a safeguard against bullying and mob mentality, as well as an avenue for creativity, positive risk-taking and celebrating our differences.
