“Wanneer je je niet kleedt zoals iedereen, moet je ook niet denken zoals iedereen.”

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𝗢𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.

It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a #crowd. That is why we need #contrarians.

«Since they have cut off their ties with their #tribe, nothing prevents them from seeing things as they are.»

#society #diversity #nonconformism

https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded via #aeonmag

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On nonconformism, or why we need to be seen and not herded | Aeon Essays

It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a crowd. That is why we need contrarians

Aeon

“Ginsberg read on to the end of the poem, which left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America and its supporting armies and navies and academies and institutions and ownership systems and power-support bases.„
—Michael McClure, San Francisco Six Gallery Reading, 1955

#beat #generation #poetry #freethinking #nonconformism #anticapitalism #endwar