When asked about conformity, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Be it either school rules or work policies, social conformity is all around you. I am sick of social conformity; of people trying to tell you the way that you should act, the books that you should / should not read (or music listen to, movies to watch, clothes you should wear, etc.). When ideologists and conformists start telling you what to do and when to do it, your very rights are at an end.
A particular issue that recently happened to me started my whole thought process on this. When a certain teacher (to not mention names) said that I could not read a certain book (It was Hillary Clinton’s Autobiography “Living History”), because Hillary Clinton is an “immoral person,” and that the book mentioned “immoral activities,” I was horrified. The only mention of those “immoral actions” were on two pages mentioning the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Bill Clinton was in office. The items in question were mentioned several times on the news and were only mentioned in Hillary’s Autobiography to explain how the issue had an affect on the Clinton’s life and how the Whitehouse officials handled the scandle.
But this issue on conformity is only a small portion of the current struggles in our society. Many people are still being conformed to certain social, political, religious, and moral issues. Is anyone else seeing where this close-minded ideology is leading not only Americans, but other nationalities to become a personality inept society. One such society in which people have no say in their personality.
One such institution that strikes me as making people conform to one standard is a certain “Christian university” in Greenville, South Carolina. This is one such college that has, time and time again, created students and alumni that are not only personality inept, but also socially inept. By brainwashing students that don’t comply to their standards, this university has created a society all their own in which students are brainwashed into believing that their way is the right and only way. (Quite similar to a book that I once read entitled “1984″ – It’s a great book!).
On the last note, I also find it interesting that such “Christians” and “moral” people are often found entrapped in lies themselves. Most of the philosophers of conformity are hypocrites themselves.
I guess this is enough of my little rant, just needed some time to vent / ponder on the issue.
