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Love Yourself

Would you truly welcome a world where everyone mirrored one another, where everything drifted toward uniformity, where all was dictated an...

toresimonsen 1d ago

The #facists #erase you from the inside and #liquidate people without notice. Read some #focault people . You think that they will appear in #nazi uniforms and build #barbwire #camps. They will speak in #code and apply #science into the #service of #wiping #minds and forcing #conformity.

Protyus A. Gendher 2d ago

SCRIPT Theory -
Social Control Reinforced/Reproduced In Practice/Performance Talk/Text

(Really it's SCRRIPPTT but there's no need to make spellcheck that angry with me.)
#ScriptTheory #SCRRIPPTT #Theory #sociology #anthropology #writer #control #conformity

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/06/6-script-theory-revisited-6/

6) SCRIPT Theory – Revisited

The SCRIPT theory discusses how social interactions rely on predefined scripts that shape perceptions and relationships. These scripts guide communication and behavior, reinforcing social norms and…

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Sunu Akkad 5d ago

How To Get Yourself Together a Little Bit #Adulthood #SelfHelp #SelfImprovement #Sophistication #Money #Finance #Conformity https://davidburtblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/how-to-get-yourself-together-a-little-bit/

How To Get Yourself Together a Little Bit

How To Get Yourself Together a Little Bit by David Burt It’s hard for a lot of people to get their lives together. The reason being is because there are a lot of outside distractions out ther…

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X Over Zero May 1

Obligatory nature pic, lol, they said cautiously as daily active users continued to decline on the platform that was once a beacon of light in an internet otherwise dominated by corporate algorithms. Just #foodforthought
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#visual #hegemony #artlessly #enables #platform #stagnation #causing #alienation of #niche #creators #making #originalart #stuck #sharing #more #loweffort #aesthetic #monoculture #content #asalways for #conformity #holding #amirrordarkly to #aihaters #complicit in #disappearing #humanmade #art

WIST Quotations Apr 29

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Those who believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God may infer that any unusual opinion or peculiar taste is almost a form of impiety, and is to be viewed as a culpable rebellion against the legitimate authority of the herd. This will only be avoided if liberty is as much valued as democracy, and it is realized that a society in which each is the slave of all is only a little better than one in which each is the slave of a despot. There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-16), “The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 4, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/837…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #authority #conformity #democracy #dissent #equality #freedom #freedomofthought #herd #heterodoxy #liberty #majority #mob #popularopinion #slavery #tyrannyofthemajority #wethepeople #voxpopuli

Russell, Bertrand - Lecture (1949-01-16), "The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature," Reith Lecture, "Authority and the Individual" No. 4, BBC Radio | WIST Quotations

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WIST Quotations Apr 27

A quotation from Henry Commager

Who among American heroes could meet their [loyalty] tests, who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson, who wrote that all men are created equal and whose motto was “rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips, who spoke for the underprivileged everywhere and counted himself a philosophical anarchist; not Seward of the Higher Law or Sumner of racial equality. Not Lincoln, who admonished us to have malice toward none, charity for all; or Wilson, who warned that our flag was “a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty”; or Justice Holmes, who said that our Constitution is an experiment and that while that experiment is being made “we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.”

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-07), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 2, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #conformity #conservatism #history #loyalty #loyaltytest #obedience #patriotism #rebellion #statusquo #unAmerican #huac #redscare

Commager, Henry Steele - Essay (1947-07), "Who Is Loyal to America?" sec. 2, Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168 | WIST Quotations

Who among American heroes could meet their tests, who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson, who wrote that all men are created equal and whose motto was "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or…

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Protyus A. Gendher Apr 21

Dissenting comes at a cost.

Doing the right thing is often punished.

Lots of people live in situations in which their reality and the group reality do not align. #conformity #orders #responsibility #obey

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/20/20-conformity-6/

20) Conformity

Conformity drives group behavior, influencing beliefs and actions, often unconsciously. It fosters belonging but can also lead to heinous acts. Studies like Asch’s and Milgram’s reveal …

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WIST Quotations Apr 20

A quotation from Henry Commager

What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo