yep. #conformists are people we need: they administrate society; they make rules that are then put into place; they enforce laws and diagnose infirmities. but when the systems they administrate and operate daily begin to stumble, their instinct is not to start again, but start better.
the only people capable of changing the world for the better are #nonconformists.
both have their downsides. #putin is a #nonconformist: look how he upturns #paradigms. the #nazis meantime — in a case of crazy shocking conformity — audited their horror like no #bureaucrats ever have.
a final thought: when faced with #nonconformity of the scale of #ukraine’s invasion, and the related cruelties being effected over the past couple of years, we have to be equally wily, unpredictable and smart. laws and their observance — the firmness of #internationaljustice, that is — absolutely needs to be a given. but that wily i alluded to above also needs to be a tool we employ: as the meme above, our current absence of truly deep #nonconformism in our western democratic systems of teamwork where the individual is subsumed to the needs of the group — not only when implementing the startling and operating it but also when thinking it up in the first place — is a considerable weakness.
we should rethink how to foment more constructive #nonconformism in our modern societies: how to recover our childhood capabilities for such enquiry:
wdyt? should we?
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