Joi is connected to the parts of the Internet that empower creativity and democracy, and he's constantly challenging the parts of the Internet that have led to conformity and consolidation.
Such individual differences are especially relevant to situations where conformity may lead to conform to criminal or addictive behaviour and thus warrants further study.
To me, the most interesting factor is the way instant communications lead to unconscious conformity.
For writers, who cull everything from what they read, any amount of guidance will lead to dull conformity.
Defects in castings lead to non-conformities and affect productivity.
Speaking on BBC radio 4, Self, whose work includes The Book of Dave and the just-published Shark, argues that Orwell was "plain wrong" and the rules in his 1946 essay Politics and the English Language lead to a stifling conformity of language.
Are there effective penalties that lead to a better conformity with the legal requirements in the future?
The desire on the part of the middle class for gentlemanly clothes led to great conformity in men's suits; since the 19th century men's fashions have remained more or less static.
Is it in view of our basic dependency on the view of others not more likely that our striving for recognition leads to uncritical conformity instead of an emancipatory struggle for recognition?
