Kierkegaard On Non-Conformity
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Kierkegaard on Nonconformity, the Individual vs. the Crowd, and the Power of the Minority
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Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.”
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“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else, you surrender your own integrity [and] become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
Eleanore Roosevelt
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And yet conformity is not only a survival strategy for us but also something institutionally indoctrinated in our culture.
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.
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This might sound obvious — a tired truism, even — and yet it’s antithetical to how most formal education unfolds, even today, with its model of industrialized conformity. Buscaglia offers a poignant example..
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The Art Teacher..
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Buscaglia’s most important point, however, is that such industrialized conformity transcends the education system and bleeds into our everyday lives, at all layers and levels of society
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its product is a narrow definition of intelligence and ability, which results in a narrow field of belonging, which in turn casts everyone outside of it as a misfit.
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He returns to the perilous effect of labels — and reminds us that social forces are the cumulative result of our individual choices.
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Kierkegaard’s prescient insight on the psychology of online trolling and bullying — he considers how our incapacity for quiet contemplation cuts us off from our true self and instead causes us to adopt by passive absorption the ideals of others.
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Lamenting the tendency to take our values from the “very loud talk” of the crowd rather than by “each individual going alone into his secret closet to commune quietly with himself” — something he had come to consider the root of our unhappiness
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Kierkegaard argues, most of us find it too daunting to live as individuals and instead opt for the consolations of the crowd..
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Most people become quite afraid when each is expected to be a separate individual.
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“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”
Vi Hart
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Like Bertrand Russell, she reminds us that to create is much braver and more difficult than to destroy
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Like Ezra Pound, she admonishes against taking criticism from people who have never created anything meaningful themselves
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Like Neil Gaiman, she points to the simple — though hardly easy — truth that the only dignified and worthwhile response to such hateful attacks is to make good art.
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