That's some good social dialog - the hypocrisy of today's society lies in its 'encouragement' of individualism; people notice how popular this philosophy is and they automatically conform to it and become part of some groups which seem to be different from others.lavadisk wrote:
EXACTLY!Turquoise wrote:
Basically... people want to be different, but they often still conform to one stereotype or another.
"I'm a nonconformist, just like all my friends."
That's what I noticed about the generation I'm in. so many people spend so much fucking effort trying to stand out that only those people exist with the exception of a few.
This kind of encourages the quick recycling of ideas and groups; once either becomes to popular, the people move on to other things and that idea/group deflates as quickly as it grew.
So does that mean we should give up this individualistic attitude, both because it's popular and because , by doing so, it will actually become individualism again? Either way, in its current, popularized form, it seems to be no different than conformity.
I'm not saying individualism doesn't exist today, but .... maybe its that people have a mass misconception on what it truly is, or they feel they MUST be different, so they put to much focus on it.
Or maybe I'm doing the same thing right now?
Don't you hate that? When you get so absorbed into criticizing something that you actually become the thing you're criticizing?
That has a lot to do with the criticism of how society deals with race today as well. The overly-critical I mean, like that asshole mentioned in the OP.