A couple of weeks ago I read a comic strip from the sunday paper, it showed a bunch of people walking around with shirts that read "I love individualism". The whole point of the strip was of course the irony of individualism that everyone has conformed to.
This had come up in my mind a few times but I had never really given it much thought. Everyone is so into individualism and nonconformity and going against the flow and not comforming and not giving into peer pressure etc, etc, etc that I wonder, does it deserve to be called that any more? It seems that seeking individuality is in fact conformity with the norm. But there are enough people still in the original conformity that both nonconformity and conformity are conformity. In this light, what is real individualisim? Or is individualism so big now that conformity is in fact nonconformity? Or would taking no position, standing the middle ground of apathy be the true way to pull away?
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