People do not punish nonconformity per se. People punish nonconformity iff it is a problem. If someone punishes you for being weird then that means your weirdness has caused a problem. If you can stop causing problems for other people then you can get away with being weird.
I walk around barefoot outside where there is broken glass. Instead of hosting my personal website on WordPress, I created my own content management system…in Lisp. I wrote this answer in Vim through i3 on a Linux machine. I am a heretical savant high on cocaine. I wrote a series of posts on how to become even weirder. Yesterday, I stared at a grass field for so long my eyes malfunctioned.
I get away with being weird because I do not cause problems for other people. The value of keeping me around outweighs the cost.
Weirdness points seem like a valuable (and limited) resource, especially if you are promoting or enacting multiple ideas…
Promoting unpopular ideas turns you into a problem.
It’s often seen to be easier to fight for one weird thing, than to fight for multiple weird things. Therefore, we ought to prioritize what we fight for…
Fighting the ordinary people around you turns you into a problem. The simplest way to preserve weirdness points is to not fight for things.
Promoting unpopular ideas costs social capital. How much you can influence other people is a good definition of social capital. If you want to get away with disruptive activities then you can increase your social capital or minimize the disruption you cause.
It’s very hard to know to what extend one gets punished for nonconformity. You don’t know about the event invitations that you didn’t get because you were seen as being too weird.
People do not punish nonconformity per se. People punish nonconformity if it is a problem
People are more likely to be vocal about punishing non-conformity if it is a problem. But I think there’s a thing very much like an anti-holo-effect that surrounds people who are perceived as weird.
People do not punish nonconformity per se. People punish nonconformity iff it is a problem. If someone punishes you for being weird then that means your weirdness has caused a problem. If you can stop causing problems for other people then you can get away with being weird.
I walk around barefoot outside where there is broken glass. Instead of hosting my personal website on WordPress, I created my own content management system…in Lisp. I wrote this answer in Vim through i3 on a Linux machine. I am a heretical savant high on cocaine. I wrote a series of posts on how to become even weirder. Yesterday, I stared at a grass field for so long my eyes malfunctioned.
I get away with being weird because I do not cause problems for other people. The value of keeping me around outweighs the cost.
Promoting unpopular ideas turns you into a problem.
Fighting the ordinary people around you turns you into a problem. The simplest way to preserve weirdness points is to not fight for things.
Promoting unpopular ideas costs social capital. How much you can influence other people is a good definition of social capital. If you want to get away with disruptive activities then you can increase your social capital or minimize the disruption you cause.
It’s very hard to know to what extend one gets punished for nonconformity. You don’t know about the event invitations that you didn’t get because you were seen as being too weird.
This is way clearer thinking than I previously had about this topic. Thank you!
People are more likely to be vocal about punishing non-conformity if it is a problem. But I think there’s a thing very much like an anti-holo-effect that surrounds people who are perceived as weird.
After observing too many cases of non-conforming people causing problems, people may update and start punishing non-conformity directly.