Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Rishabh R]

1 hour ago, r0ckyreed said:

Yes! Good. I didn’t see your post before I made mine. Great minds think alike! Oh wait, that’s conformist parroting too!  
 

However, questioning isn’t conformist. You’re wrong there.

Thanks.Yes I could be wrong. But I think that the idea that you must question your own assumptions , beleifs about reality is like a common therapeutic practice. Secondly, questioning other people is more conformist than questioning oneself.

Edited Tuesday at 02:11 PM by Rishabh R

[integral]

@Leo Gura  Can the conformist stage of development be authentic? 

[cle103]

@Terell Kirby Yass! "Lore" and "Side quest" have also been co-opted by my generation haha

[r0ckyreed]

Another example is theater. All acting is conformity.

[Terell Kirby]

10 hours ago, integral said:

Can the conformist stage of development be authentic? 

most conformity is authentic in that most people don't know they are conforming when they are indeed conforming.

[Leo Gura]

As was said of Ronald Reagan: "He's an authentic phony."

[Vali2003]

Some examples for conformity that came to my mind right now:

- Trying to be an ethical or morally good person (I live in a stage green dominated area so I experience this one often) 

- Sports techniques and strategies. What the best way to hold a darts arrow is, how to shoot a basketball, how to throw a football. 

- The criteria by which art — for example movies, paintings or writing — is criticized. Assuming that characters need to be consistent in a movie for it to be considered a good movie for instance. In general, not understanding the principle — you could also say, the reality — of what makes a movie good or bad and instead blindly applying concepts like character consistency. 

[UnbornTao]

Tradition is an obvious example, and yet, at the same time, not following tradition - avoiding it - can be even more conformist.

How much of your so-called non-conformity is a reaction against what you perceive as conformity?

Edited Wednesday at 04:14 PM by UnbornTao

[Terell Kirby]

Crips and Bloods

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, Vali2003 said:

Some examples for conformity that came to my mind right now:

- Trying to be an ethical or morally good person (I live in a stage green dominated area so I experience this one often) 

- Sports techniques and strategies. What the best way to hold a darts arrow is, how to shoot a basketball, how to throw a football. 

- The criteria by which art — for example movies, paintings or writing — is criticized. Assuming that characters need to be consistent in a movie for it to be considered a good movie for instance. In general, not understanding the principle — you could also say, the reality — of what makes a movie good or bad and instead blindly applying concepts like character consistency. 

Not if it comes from the inside.

[Daniel123]

- Holding democracy / capitalism / communism / socialism etc. as the best form of government

- obeying traffic laws (or any law for that matter)

- manners, politeness, social skills

- saying 'bless you' after someone sneezes

[Vali2003]

- Advent calendars are pure conformity 

- Stretching is conformity to a large degree

- Our entire muscle-based dominated  understanding of the human body, injuries, pain & athleticism is pure conformity. 

[Elliott]

Carpet

So disgusting

[Terell Kirby]

Brand name clothing conformity (urban, upper middle class, yuppies)

• The North face
• Patagonia jackets
• Hoka running shoes
• Lulu lemon

[Salvijus]

Boobs

[Ishanga]

Some form of conformity has to exist for ppl to live together in a society, less though if Your society is small in #'s, more like Tribes..

I don't think we are meant to live in Big Cities, imo Toronto is a basic disaster zone, I can't imagine what it is like in places 2, 3 or 10X the size, must be chaos, but I've seen videos of the Tokyo transit system and it seems to work much better than here, same with South Korea, they must be doing something right, but don't know the quality of life for the avg person..

[UnbornTao]

37 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

Boobs

🤔🙈

[Leo Gura]

5 hours ago, Salvijus said:

Boobs

[Leo Gura]

NLP

[Butters]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

NLP

Why?