Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[UnbornTao]

35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not conformity, that's an addiction.

I don't see how these would have to be mutually exclusive.

Edited 5 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Human Mint]

46 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Taking your phone with you everywhere out of habit, even on short walks.

Although it can save you in emergencies

[UnbornTao]

5 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

Although it can save you in emergencies

For sure. And it's obviously very handy for all kinds of tasks. 

Edited 5 hours ago by UnbornTao

[PenguinPablo]

What about a thread for examples of non-conformity? The contrasts makes it more interesting!

This guy is homeless in NYC and uses his savings to acquire and develop rental properties in Mexico. Only spends about $300 a month between food, Netflix, and gym membership.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by PenguinPablo

[Schizophonia]

@Leo Gura If you liked Windows 7 (it's my favourite too) you would love mac os x. 

The simplicity of Windows 7 but more modern, more beautiful, and faster; without malware too.

Edited 5 hours ago by Schizophonia

[AerisVahnEphelia]

20 hours ago, Terell Kirby said:

Context matters. Blacks were called N words by whites in a derogatory fashion- not to mention centuries of slavery and oppression.

No black person wants to be called N word by a white person simply because it just doesn't feel good.

Not sure you can call that conformity

I m all for making it illegal to everyone.

Or legal to everyone.

There is no middle ground and if someone do not see why he is retarded. 

Edited 4 hours ago by AerisVahnEphelia

[Schizophonia]

On 14/12/2025 at 0:54 PM, AION said:

Basically all cults are conformity like Veganism, where there is a lot of pressure to be part of the club and have some self rightiousness

 

Notice how most of these people are physically unattractive; 

If you have an individualistic bias, it will seem paradoxical to you that they are doing even more harm to themselves; but if you see individuality as an illusion, whose the signified is actually the reproduction of larger-scale structures (like an ant and the intelligence of the anthill), of collective subjects one might say from a more directly Marxist point of view, you understand that they are only reproducing what they think they must do, what they think they deserve.

Before, I would have thought of a cope like "If I hurt myself now it will benefit me later because I'm ugly, so I have to be particularly careful"—a kind of (paranoid) projective functioning—but in fact that doesn't work, because projection implies a rational will on an individual level, which isn't the case here since these people aren't any happier--on the contrary-- and deep down they know it's antisocial; this doesn't suggest they might receive an increase in love from the group in exchange for certain efforts, criterias that are met.

They were simply bullied, labeled as worthless at an early age, and reproduce the collective will regarding their individuality, which dictates that they deserve a certain amount of love, of survival on some form.

Hence the intuitively skeptical stance of Marxists towards personal development, and particularly the New Age movement, because it is a vehicle for authoritarianism; and what lies behind authoritarian logic is the mental conditioning to function (again, we are herd animals, our pseudo-individuality actually reflects structures and in particularly human social/collective ones, even if it's repressed) within a world of social classes, specifically in a socially disadvantaged position.

For exemple typically there is something extremely suspicious about taking "psychedelics for self-medication."

Firstly because it doesn't work—the whole "people changing their personality/life after a trip" thing is in my opinion a load of bullshit and basically doesn't exist; i don't believe it a minute—and secondly because it's an authoritarian way of thinking that is to say which is part of the greater belief of being socially disadvantaged.

"I'm going to become a better person by ingesting a vasoconstrictive violent hallucinogen." The same goes for believing that reading crappy self-help books is going to change your life.

The more honest you are with yourself and the more you learn about human psychology, the more you realize that the only thing that truly and substantially improves a person's "quality" in the long run is their social conditions; as a survivalist and a collective being (from a non-dual perspective, I wouldn't even make that distinction).

If tomorrow I put you in a strict bourgeois family you will become the ideal son-in-law much, MUCH faster than with any self-help book, psychedelic, or any other tool.

Why? Because humans REFLECT STRUCTURES

 

I should start a thread about this to develop and tidy it up.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Schizophonia

[Jannes]

chess status

[Jannes]

Thinking that smoking weed is cool 

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Jannes said:

chess status

It's much deeper than status.

The entire game of Chess.

[Jannes]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

It's much deeper than status.

The entire game of Chess.

You mean the rules?

[Joseph Maynor]

On 12/14/2025 at 2:49 AM, UnbornTao said:

I think 'mathematicians' would fit better there.

It seems as though mathematics has a simpler and more straightforward notion of "proof" than a lot of subject areas that all mathematicians more or less adhere to.

[Carl-Richard]

22 minutes ago, Jannes said:

Thinking that smoking weed is cool 

"It's not a drug, it's a natural plant".

Level 1 stoner ego defense mechanism.

Edited 2 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Joseph Maynor]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The entire game of Chess.

True.  I still love chess though.  I spend months learning the main lines of openings.

[Leo Gura]

23 minutes ago, Jannes said:

You mean the rules?

The whole damn thing.

[Daniel Balan]

46 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's much deeper than status.

The entire game of Chess.

Chess is extreme conformity. If Magnus Carslen stats playing the Sicilian Najdorf, the whole chess community plays it, when Bobby Fischer started playing the King's Indian Defence with black, all of a sudden the whole globe started doing that. I've noticed that the only reason I played all my life 1. E4 instead of 1.d4 was because of Fischer because he said that 1.E4 is best by test. That's the reason I quit chess for good. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Daniel Balan

[Joseph Maynor]

5 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

Chess is extreme conformity. If Magnus Carslen stats playing the Sicilian Najdorf, the whole chess community plays it, when Bobby Fischer started playing the King's Indian Defence with black, all of a sudden the whole globe started doing that. I've noticed that the only reason I played all my life 1. E4 instead of 1.d4 was because of Fischer because he said that 1.E4 is best by test. That's the reason I quit chess for good. 

Is the presumption here that conformity is bad?

[Leo Gura]

11 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

That's the reason I quit chess for good. 

Bro, that's why you gotta play Chess 960. It's chess minus all conformity. Give it a try.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[LambdaDelta]

There is a special edition of the Bible that uses red text to indicate direct quotes of Jesus. Rather sneaky, initially it seems like a good idea. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition

[OBEler]

If there is a concert and everyone is clapping to the music. If I join them mindless with clapping in my hands this too is Conformity.