Tag: Conformity
The dullest of virtues, conformity is society’s way of punishing thought. Here, I expose its tyranny in all its tedious forms.
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Day 2: The Peril of a Good Example
One is constantly told to follow a good example. It is a piece of advice so utterly devoid of originality that one immediately suspects its virtue. The world, it seems, is a vast, uninspired gallery of people trying to be like someone else. They mimic a hero, a philanthropist, or, most tragically, a person of…
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Day 1: The Tyranny of the Authentic
It is a curious and utterly tedious modern malady, this obsession with ‘authenticity.’ One finds it everywhere, like a particularly common cold—a rather unseemly affliction that has infected our society’s most sacred pursuits. This insistence upon raw truth over refined artifice has led to a great and lamentable decline. The artist, for instance, is no…