Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

The relationship is that conformity can lead to various kinds of addictions. Like smoking. But once the addiction is set it is not conformity, now it is more serious.

Conformity is the gateway drug.

Edited February 25 by Leo Gura

[UnbornTao]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The relationship is that conformity can lead to various kinds of addictions. Like smoking. But once the addiction is set it is not conformity, now it is more serious.

Conformity is the gateway drug.

Fair enough.

[Yimpa]

 

[Leo Gura]

Swatting

[Eskilon]

Sitting on chairs 

[Yimpa]

 

[integration journey]

Following and talking about all the news in Gaza because it’s so mainstream now but having no clue what happened in neighboring Syria in the last 14 years. 

[Yimpa]

 

 

Edited Monday at 03:03 PM by Yimpa

[Yimpa]

 

[LoneWonderer]

School uniforms

[AtmanIsBrahman]

Hating on AI, and hating on new technologies in general 👀 (Ahem… Leo’s blog…)

[Leo Gura]

42 minutes ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

Hating on AI, and hating on new technologies in general 👀 (Ahem… Leo’s blog…)

I don't hate AI. I hate the humans who bullshit us about AI.

AI is innocent. Humans are guilty.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Cred]

On 01/03/2026 at 5:53 PM, Yimpa said:

 

 

Criticizing the government of North Korea and thinking Kim Jong Un is evil is conformity.

I think it is funny seeing people here criticize North Korea for how unified it's people are but at the same time preach that unity is love. This notion that all of these people are somehow forced into faking submission and all secretly feel they are oppressed is a fabrication from the west.

They love their government because it is actually helping improve the lives of its people. The fact that this kind of unity feels so alien is because we as westerners got so used to the polarization and the hatred of each other's political opinions that we automatically assume there must be some conspiracy behind the unity of the people in different countries.

What the western people are failing to realize that all of this polarization is manufactured by the rich who control all western countries. The do everything in their power to make sure the people are not unified so they can extract as much money from the population as possible while paying as little taxes as possible.

Exercising and valuing free speech is conformity. The only reason why you think you need to be able to criticize the government is because you intuitively know that in the west, your government was never on your side.

The reason why North Korea spends so much on its military and on nukes is because they always knew that the usa is the most evil force in the world. Looking at the Iran situation makes NK's behavior pretty reasonable all of a sudden, doesn't it? Without nukes, there is no sovereignty. There never was. If you don't have nukes you are at the mercy of the usa and you can only hope they don't exploit, bomb and coup you too much.

Realizing that North Korea is based and the west is evil is escaping the propaganda matrix of the west.

Edited 1 hour ago by Cred

[LambdaDelta]

9 minutes ago, Cred said:

This notion that all of these people are somehow forced into faking submission and all secretly feel they are oppressed is a fabrication from the west.

There goes your inability to hold opposites again. Learn it, it'll do wonders for both your sense-making and emotional state.
These things can be true at the same time. They are genuinely patriotic and greatly value their national identity, but also highly brainwashed and sometimes exaggerate displays of loyalty in fear of punishment. 

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The informant from North Hamkyung Province told the website: ‘The authorities are handing down at least six months in a labour-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organised gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine.’

Crying and mourning is totally understandable and even admirable, but such extreme measures are problematic and counter-intuitively make the mourning less genuine than it could have otherwise been. As it always goes with morality at gunpoint. 

 

I'm no westerner, I'm intimately familiar with how such regimes and people under them operate. Just posted a mass-scale live performance of the Russian anthem in another thread, I know the words by heart and cry every time I sing it on New Year's Eve — the deeper I awaken to God & Love the more emotional it gets. 

The issues of which government is more or less evil, oppressive, untruthful, etc. are all inconsequential bickering over content in the grand scheme of things.
These people experience cognitive dissonance which then generates a huge portion of mental and collective issues. I can tell you for a fact that many people in Russia feel oppressed, but would also die for their country if called upon it, even in a senseless war against a so-called fraternal nation like Ukraine. How do they square that? They can't, so the only way out is to bullshit themselves. Primitive minds can't operate in any other way.
And then by extension everyone looking from the outside also doesn't understand this and get the same cognitive dissonance in another form by drawing these simplistic binary conclusions, taking either the pro-western or 'tankie' sides. 

That's all kids' stuff, your standard should be much higher, which is to go meta. Else what hope is there of escaping the matrix? The matrix tricks you by letting you think you escaped it, when in fact just a couple minor variables got shifted to create the appearance of something novel, more advanced, more trutful.