True. Half of society wants you to be yourself, to be individualistic. The other half wants you to shut up and conform so society gets to continue functioning.
I might amend that a bit: humans within society encourage individualism; the system itself wants conformity.
yes! well, that does make sense since a system is more effective the more streamlined it is, it's just that when the system is about people, streamlining it can defeat the entire (stated) purpose of the system—if you streamline too much, you can end up with people serving the system instead of the system serving people...
True. Half of society wants you to be yourself, to be individualistic. The other half wants you to shut up and conform so society gets to continue functioning.
I might amend that a bit: humans within society encourage individualism; the system itself wants conformity.
yes! well, that does make sense since a system is more effective the more streamlined it is, it's just that when the system is about people, streamlining it can defeat the entire (stated) purpose of the system—if you streamline too much, you can end up with people serving the system instead of the system serving people...
Yep. We are here.