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It's about tribalism, conformity, a uniform.
He felt bored there, constrained by dull conformity; a vision of fierce desert freedom had come over him.
Tyler is the enemy of bourgeois conformity, a moral saboteur on the lines of Guy Grand, the malevolent hoaxer in Terry Southern's Magic Christian.
The idea is that the things which constitute high-school popularity (contrived contests, cruel conformity, a captive audience) turn out to poor predictors of success in the real world.
What differs between then and now is the enhanced ability of the seventeenth-century church (protestant as well as Catholic) to enforce religious conformity (a loss that some of today's true believers still pine for).
Hypocritically, he had patronized Ilonka, criticizing her middlebrow tastes while declaring that character was all he cared about, and despising her social conformity — a conformity he exemplified, right down to the family crest stitched on his underwear.
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He is a rugged individualist in a nation that still worships conformity, an innovator whose creation may someday replace the ubiquitous incandescent lightbulb.
This involves a certain amount of conformity and a dedication to a particular look.
Given the commitment to an identity, conformity to a norm does not involve internalization.
The standard, the court held, was in conformity with a report of a centrally appointed commission.
By Kelefa Sanneh Jordan Peterson is alternately a defender of conformity and a critic of it.
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