pathologising normalcy

Benny Bunter

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I do get the feeling that 'well educated' people of the past were more likely to become non-conformist than 'well educated' people nowadays. But it's only a feeling I have, obviously, I can't know for sure.
 

Benny Bunter

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'Instinctive compliance syndrome'
If it's instinctive, you need education to intervene at an early stage to overcome this. But a certain type of education that's been lost, I think - a sharing of knowledge rather than dogma.
 

mixed_biscuits

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I do get the feeling that 'well educated' people of the past were more likely to become non-conformist than 'well educated' people nowadays. But it's only a feeling I have, obviously, I can't know for sure.
Conformists dominate the educational establishments and weed out the non-conformists. This also means the best educated tend not to be that bright or original.
 

mixed_biscuits

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Dolbert understood the thread correctly it's not a politics thread
Anthropology is not just politics, you non-educated numpty.

You'll notice those societal universals are common to every society at every stage. They are the untouchable bedrock of human behaviour, and any pretenses to social engineering stop at their borders.
 
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