GASP. Wanna relevantly gauged opinion in numerical schnumericals?
Previously in TissueBox inquiries...!!
Polled here, many claim it doesn't even exist anymore.
Conforming was never cool -- that perception is distorted with age. But conformity is order. It is a crucial asset. It is about the collective -- and the world today learns more and more that they exist not in a vacuum, that it is a diverse, gigantic web of cultures and systems and economies, and this information is consolidated, made freely accessible, and turned into the spearheads of ethical conduct in tuned in communities -- and the internet is one big tuned in lobby.
So there is little 'rational' room for the individual in a line of congested traffic today. Those who break away no longer have the wiggle space to upend norms while also possessing the luck, acumen, or will to uphold the moral normative's end game, because the information age and the digitized social platform necessitates precision on an extensive scale.
THUS THE SUCCESS, for in making society 'good', it is made good to conform and suppress the individual's innate will to irresponsibility which arises at the intersection between schema and comfort-diminishing idea.
In other words, it's not cool to conform. It's conscious. And growing more so, with technology's spur.
Youth will always be young. As long as society exists, there will be a rebel. As a minority, as a hate group, the cool never dies. But counterculture as singular vindication, as a willful resistance, already has.
*grabs pizza slices and chokes on anchovies*
