{"id":290,"date":"2002-10-01T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=290"},"modified":"2002-10-01T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-01T15:24:00","slug":"conformity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"conformity"},"content":{"rendered":"

made another little post<\/a><\/p>\n

So, in some sense, we can totally neuter the concepts of both conformity and nonconformity with the simple concepts that we all put our pants on one leg at a time (if we wear pants, that is, but the truly universal examples are more biological) and that we’re all separate, unique individuals, like it or lump it. <\/p>\n

But if we actually want to make use of language in a meaningful way, we have to accept that “everything” is not “nothing” and “nothing” is not “everything”. <\/p>\n

Conformity is obedience to dictates from outside the self. Whether it be one’s mother urging them towards that girl\/boy that she thinks is perfect for them, their friends encouraging them to try some of this shit, or wearing a suit and tie to work, (or jeans and tiedye, depending on them place of employment), the essence of conformity is marching to the beat of a drummer somewhere, anywhere out there. You are conforming to something.<\/p>\n

Nonconformity, by the same token, is disobedience. But most of the time when we’re disobeying someone, we’re obeying someone else. Smoking a joint with your friends may not be conforming to Nancy Regan’s or the DEA’s mandates, but it is probably conforming to your friends’ urgings and\/or expectations. Playing the game that way renders “conformity” equally ‘meaningless’. <\/p>\n

“Nonconformity” is usually used to mean deliberate nonconformity to the dominant social values. As a straight-edge vegan, dick sucking, collectivist, used clothes buying, computer nerd, I am [mostly] not conforming to the society’s general animal eating, aspirin swilling, alcohol drinking, heteronormative, pro-corporate, hierarchical, capitalist, anti-intellectual tendencies, and thus nonconformist, despite my ‘obedience’ to the dictates of veganism, etc, etc.<\/p>\n

Issues of whether one is conforming to the punk movement, some guy they saw on MTV, or their own internal sense of self is another matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

made another little post So, in some sense, we can totally neuter the concepts of both conformity and nonconformity with the simple concepts that we all put our pants on one leg at a time (if we wear pants, that is, but the truly universal examples are more biological) and that we’re all separate, unique … Continue reading “conformity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}