it seems like you break a norm by having an individual violate it in a very public manner as a way of testing the strength of a consensus--that is, you force enforcers of the norm to make good on threats against violations, or show that they no longer can, because . . .
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So, you know, explicitly countercultural forces had a certain appeal And it's reaaaaally uncomfortable watching the counterculture rapidly shifting gears away from undermining old dumb norms to undermining them indiscriminately while inventing new ones at a ferocious pace. end
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I suspect in at least one and generally many facets of life no one likes to be told what to do, whether by the right or the left. That is what makes individuality so interesting!
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Excellent thread. Seems essentially accurate, and underlines the way relative values seem to predominate over absolute ones today. Deprived of past, future, and eternity we exist only in relation to each other, pushing and testing and defending for the sake of it.
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Indeed, I'm old enough to remember Lenny Bruce and obscenity censorship. It's sickening, if predictable, to see how quickly power has revealed the authoritarianism of the Left.
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I don’t know…given the amount of flying I do I could get onboard for a return to enforcing the norm of “wearing shoes on the plane” by judicious use of force! Put on your big boy shoes for crying out loud…heck, I will settle for you putting on your shoes, period.
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