MetaJess

What are some lifestyle choices or decisions you’ve made that most people would consider “unconventional”? — taking a different path, coloring outside the lines, etc. If those choices are in hindsight, how do you think about them now?

I feel that “most people’s” idea of a “conventional” choice or life path are outdated, often stupid, unthinking, tradition fallacy and as a consequence almost entirely wrong. All of my life choices are somewhat unconventional because I actually thought about them.

The outdatedness of many conventions (and conventional thinking) seems especially damning. We do live in a different world, and old patterns don’t always continue to work.

To the extent that the different world is unsustainable, it will pass away, and the enduring patterns will reveal themselves again. Very little new arises which is good. We wish to believe otherwise so that we can be superior to those who came before.