Comments on: Fashionable Non-conformity

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:17:27 +0000

Ultimately, no. It’s a contradiction in terms. That’s the point, really… it’s sub-culture conformity as a lame rebellion against big-culture conformity.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:45:08 +0000

Is fashionable non-conformity actually possible?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:04:29 +0000

I have my issues with Rand. Her support of interventionist foreign policy and her strong anti-homosexual sentiments are two difference that come to mind. I just thought it was a good quote about the people who express their individualism by joining groups and following anti-trend trends.

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By: Peter Knight

Peter Knight — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:20:48 +0000

Sure, we associate with social conventions, ‘belong’ to peer groups and shuck the jacket when it becomes too tight. Methinks it gets skewed when instead of living within them we ‘become’ them.

And as you quote Ayn Rand; here’s a case where a solid, consistent and perfectly good philosophy (that she called ‘objectivism’) becomes to some people just the sort of ‘faith’she opposes in it. Blind faith in Ayn Rand Who Can Say No Wrong! I call it “Aynranity” (Ms. Rand would hsave hated that).

By: Ro

Ro — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:41:23 +0000

Hey I’m with you. Eating and shopping organic an d local, and cutting down on meat, makes me feel physiologically and psychologically great — partly because it helps me identify with a certain group of people.

But I do make a point of going to Macdonald’s every now and then and enjoying a big Mac — cuz I don’t want to keep myself honest and not turn into a self-righteous ‘fashionable non-conformist’.

We all exist in groups though, to whose fashions we conform are own; I think that’s just human nature, and I think it’s OK. The key is not to ‘disassociate’ from our groups’ fashions, but to challenge and oppose them now and again.