CONformity
April 25, 2008
Reading this is making me horribly depressed.
In an age where everyone is becoming the same in mind and body, true value lies in individuality. I believe this.
This is a big reason I’m having (and have always had) so much trouble with school. I’m only happy to conform if that’s my natural state on a matter. However, right now, I’m conforming more than I’m comfortable with.
The only `con` I endorse is confusion of the chaotic sort.
April 25, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t make it through that entire article. I read a couple of paragraphs. Then it just started to make me sick.
But, if you go to Princeton, what do you expect to find? Buddhists? Free love and daisies?
April 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I’m at a school where they run things like /that/. They expect you to be /that/ way. It’s a big disconnect from what I’m used to.
At least in at a state school in the US you can learn and will be taught with some degree of success.
Remember, this country’s education system INSPIRED places like Princeton, Harvard and Yale.
I’ll have to look-up what they call conform-tards here. They mentioned it in the latest campus paper, I just can’t remember what they say.
April 25, 2008 at 4:11 pm
It seems to me that most of the great innovations of my lifetime came from people who “broke the mold” “thought outside the box” were nonconformists in some way or the other. If we are raising a generation of young people whose only focus is what they learned while at a major university, then we are doing them a huge disservice.
Think about the people in technology, in medicine, whatever, who have been ground breakers. Did they have formal education?? Yes. Did they stick with what they knew? No. They went to a place that helped them discover new worlds. Most great minds do that. They don’t wait in their cubicle for a great breakthrough.
Great article if you are droid!