You don’t have to follow the crowd. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
Culture has always been the antagonist of conscience.
Once we see ourselves as part of a larger entity… once we identify with it… we feel a necessity to conform to it. If we don’t, we lose the existential crutch that larger entities offer us. And, partly as a result of living with that collective identification, most of us are emotionally unprepared to stand alone before the world.
You’ll notice, however, that more or less all our big steps forward have come from people who stepped out alone. Here’s just a brief listing of such people:
- Abraham
- Moses
- Diogenes
- Pythagoras
- Sappho
- Buddha
- Jesus
- Confucius
- Peter Abelard
- Thomas Paine
Cultures form naturally among people of similar opinions, but as they grow and continue, those opinions are treated as entities of themselves. And so the collective begins to oppose (and soon enough hate) the free-minded individual.
If we share ideas that we are individually persuaded of, we have a shared culture that does not restrict conscience.
If, however, we begin to see those who deviate from our ideas as opponents (as people who insult our ideas), our culture has become a jealous god: Those who conform are noble; those who don’t are vile traitors.
Culture? We don’t need any stinking culture in this rootless shop mongrel stripmall/subdivision/industrial park eyesore.
The cutesy subdivision three word name is what was destroyed for muh convenience.
A bud once made a subdivision naming app and we laughed until sides hurt over the names.
My EBT card had better be fully loaded or I’ll burn it all down.
Wheel up the mobile 24-7 buffet so I can fill my 64oz. from the chocolate fountain.
Reminds me of the Bosch Crucifixion of Christ painting where they all look like hideous monsters except for several people.